Free documentation licenses

John Cowan jcowan at reutershealth.com
Tue Nov 28 18:43:59 UTC 2000


kmself at ix.netcom.com wrote:

> In the general case, if the documentation is to be freely
> redistributable to a large license, a license which allows distribution
> under terms at least as liberal as the software license should be
> sufficient.

Indeed, but that is a general point not specific to documentation.
It is commonplace for parts of a GPLed software package to be released under
newBSD/MIT.

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