Re: Licences

On 2004-08-23 15:55:43 +0100 Sylvain Beucler <[email protected]> wrote:

[FDL for book and LGPL also for source]
> avoid the mentioned problem to apply a free documentation license to 
> source
> code, making it non-free code.

It does not avoid the problem of being unable to include the 
explanation from the programming book, or one based closely upon it. 
Do cookbook authors really want to stop people using their 
explanations of their source? :-(

> [...] to set "Visit O'Reilly on the Web at www.oreilly.com." as the
> FDL back-cover text (eg 
> http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/dbcpyright.html).

I didn't realise anyone had actually started doing that. :-(( As if I 
didn't dislike O'Reilly enough for blacklisting lisp.

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