Re: gtkmm tutorial license / FDL

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--- Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 12:45 -0600, Jonathon Jongsma
> wrote:
> > I've noticed that there's currently a lot of talk
> in the Debian camp
> > about the FDL, and it seems likely that all
> documentation that's
> > licensed only under the FDL will be removed from
> the main Debian
> > repository (see
> http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001).
> 
> Let's see what the result is. This is a bit too dull
> for me to follow in
> detail, but it seems unnecessary/excessive to me.

The Debian people are worth listening to, but
let's not exaggerate the importance of this.
The impact - if they go ahead - will be to
impose a small amount of inconvenience
on Debian users, who will still be able to
get the documentation.

The FDL allows me to fix bugs in the docs and
distribute the fixed docs under the same
license. That's free enough for any
reasonable person. It's not worth wasting
any time (that might more usefully be spent
documenting something ...) on trying to
persuade authors to agree to change the
license on their work to something that meets
Debian's ideological-purity standards.