Re: Licences

MJ Ray wrote:

>On 2004-08-23 13:56:55 +0100 Jens Axel Søgaard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I would prefer a license similar to the one used by the Wikipedia [FDL]
>>A strength of this license is that people can use the text and snippets also
>>for unanticipated uses. [...]
>>
>
>...but not for putting it in free software or any book which has "primary" coverage of an invariant section's topic. :-/ See my previous summary of the LGPL/FDL arguments.
>
I searched for "primary" and couldn't find anything. Am I misreading 
section
"4. Modifications"? My interpretation would be that one could use it in 
a software
product, but I could easily have missed something in the legalese.

Can anyone remember the "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Includes and 
Autodocs"?
In the middle of a *large* listing of who owns which trademarks one can 
suddenly read:

  "reading legal mumbo-jumbo can turn your brain to guacamole" 

-- 
Jens Axel Søgaard





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