RE: GDP Handbook

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: FALLON,DAVID JOSEPH [mailto:dfallon@ucla.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 10:43 AM
> To: Havoc Pennington
> Subject: Re: GDP Handbook
> 
> RMS has been working on a GNU documentation license recently, 
> but I'm not
> sure at what state it is in. :) Someone should find out, as I presume
> that's going to be the closest to what the GNOME project 
> needs. Also, I'd
> recommend staying away from the OPL, as licenses with 
> "options" are A Bad
> Thing, and should be avoided.

There have been some "heated" debates as to the how the GNU Documentation
License is going to look on the LDP-discuss list.  I haven't heard anything
for a couple of weeks, but I can assure you that many of the LDP people
weren't happy when discussion stopped to give RMS time to work on it a bit
more.  There have been lots of licencing talks, and I haven't followed all
of them.  I'm not terribly optimistic about having a workable documentation
license within the next few weeks to a couple of months.  I think that the
one that has been on FSF manuals should be good enough until things
solidify.
	Greg