Sophie Gautier wrote:
I don't think that's right. None of the open source licenses have a
requirement to track changes, and there are some very smart lawyers
who have worked on "open source" since before it was called open
source, and none of them have added this sort of requirement to any
FOSS license.
You should read again the GNU FDL and the paragraph 4 Modifications.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
And this is an FSF Free Documentation Licences from what is said on
their site.
Hi Sophie. I think you are referring to this section:
<snip>
[Requirements:]
Preserve the section Entitled "History", Preserve its Title, and add to
it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and publisher
of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If there is no
section Entitled "History" in the Document, create one stating the
title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as given on its
Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified Version as stated
in the previous sentence.
</snip>
This is not tracking changes. All you need to do is say that you
modified the document (title, year, new authors and publisher). You are
not required to state what you changed. It would look like this:
HISTORY
My Document - 2004-03-21 - Daniel Carrera - My Publisher
My Document - 2004-03-28 - Sophie Gautier - My Publisher
My Document - 2004-04-01 - Jean H. Weber - My Publisher
This requirement is only slightly annoying. It doesn't have any of the
problems I described for the PDL one.
Best,
Daniel.
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