Hey Callum, On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 07:16:00PM +1300, Callum McKenzie wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 22:10 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: > > I personally think it's a good idea as I agree that the GFDL sucks, > ^^^^^^^^^^ > Given that I regularly hear this (and mostly agree), why did we choose > to recommend[1] the GFDL as a license in the first-place? Did we have a > particular reason or did it just seem like a good idea at the time? > (Being the FSF's recommended doc license and all that.) In most cases, policies were established before the voices against the license got strong, but I suspect that the strongest reason is that "if the FSF recommends this one for docs, it must be The Right Thing". Well, we don't think it is ;) > - Callum (strongly inclined to change the docs he wrote to GPL) Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jordi sindominio net jordi debian org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/
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