On 10/01/2008, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Quoting MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm still disappointed that the FDL has been used for that. We need > > > to promote these skills more widely and easily than that allows. > > > > What are the problems with the FDL for that? > > Some of them are general to strong copyleft, similar to why you'd use > the LGPL rather than the GPL for a library. There are other skills > out there which we need to win mindset from and more liberal terms help > to do that more cheaply.
This sounds like a general endorsement that applies the Open Font License's weak copyleft, which I hope to start a discussion about on the OFL list shortly and look forward to your contributions there, MJ :-) > Some of them are FDL-specific, like allowing any group to attach > permanent obnoxious advertising or poison pills, or including the FDL > 1.2 licence inline. See http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2006/fdl#general > > The SFDL would probably remove some of those drawbacks, but not all. I hope that you've engaged the FSF about all the specific drawbacks you see in SFDL. I'm not sure how the wikipedia/fdl/cc thing is progressing; anyone care to start a new thread about that? :-) -- Regards, Dave _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
