Free documentation licenses

[David Johnson]

On Tuesday 28 November 2000 02:26 pm, John Cowan wrote:

> If the software were GPL and the doco BSD, then if anyone rewrote the
> doco for greater clarity or some such, then he would be able to make
> the improved version proprietary and prevent it from being distributed
> with current or future releases of the program.

As long as the original documentation is available, I don't think it makes 
much of a difference (depending on the wishes of the author, of course). To 
take a specific example, a "proprietary" SAMS or IDG manual on emacs does not 
limit the emacs software in any way. A proprietarized derivitive would 
likewise have no effect on the emacs software, though RMS would be upset over 
it for other reasons.

-- 
David Johnson
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