Free documentation licenses

John Cowan cowan at locke.ccil.org
Wed Nov 29 07:53:07 UTC 2000


On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Ben Tilly wrote:

> I think section 2 has a lot to say about this.  Its wording
> makes no - and allows no - distinction between programs and
> non-programs.  However you may aggregate works together.
> So even though documentation and your program are distributed
> together, since each can be used independently of the other
> I would argue that that is just aggregation.

Right.  But a GPLed program in a book with commentary produces
a GPLed book.

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John Cowan                                   cowan at ccil.org
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