RE: Last call for the Cookbook express!

On 2004-08-23 11:20:30 +0100 Neil W. Van Dyke <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> By the way, could someone summarize the current rationale for LGPL 
> over
> GFDL?

The FDL (hey, we don't write GLGPL do we?) is not a free software 
licence, nor is it compatible with any. To be fair, it was never 
claimed to be either.

If the cookbook were under FDL, you could not use cookbook text (be it 
program or explanation) in a free software program, for example. 
That's pretty nasty for a recipe book. Another serious problem is the 
ability to contaminate an FDL'd book with an invariant section which 
could obstruct republication by forcing advertisement of another 
publisher, or obstruct modifications which would make a "secondary" 
section "primary".

For a summary that uses the Debian Free Software Guidelines for 
comparison, see 
http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.html

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