Re: DevMo gets automatically-generated license text and next/prev/toc links

Henri Sivonen wrote:
> I had the GNU FDL and the Open Publication License in mind. (I am not 
> suggesting anything about the relative merits of the licenses. I am just 
> interested in the rationale, because I have not studied the 
> documentation licenses carefully myself, but I would like to learn about 
> them.)

Some thoughts:

The FDL has various problems, as the Free Software Foundation's idea of 
free-ness when it comes to documentation seems to be different to their 
idea of free-ness for software.

It also seems that Creative Commons has the most momentum in this area, 
and so there is likely to be more compatible text.

Another consideration was that, to avoid licensing problems even within 
the site, we wanted to keep the number of permitted licenses small. With 
CC, we can do that, but still allow people to copyleft their text or not 
as they choose.

Gerv