Re: mandrake switches to FDL

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

On 17 May 2001 11:58:50 -0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> I thought that some of you may be interested to know that Mandrake
> has switched to  FDL as their documentation license (see 
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3)

Pretty slick...
> 
> AFAIK, this is the first major Linux distribution to do so. RedHat uses
> more restrictive license (no modifications allowed); license of SuSe

Were there specific docs you wanted opened?  I don't know the rationale
behind RH not opening all of their docs, but if there are some we can
use, I'll bet that it's not too much of a battle to get them GNU
licensed.  
    Greg

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