GFDL not good for free-software documentation

GFDL not good for free-software documentation

Posted Oct 27, 2004 23:50 UTC (Wed) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to free documentation licenses by piman
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to free documentation licenses

Indeed. Whatever the GFDL at its current form is, it is NOT a Good Thing when applied to free software documentation, unless we are talking about "external" documentation, such as books.

The GFDL has its place, even as it is now. But that place is well away from any free software project.

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