Re: GDL Guidebook : Help please !

2005-08-14 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
Thanks for the info. I've been Googling this afternoon and I did notice a few dissuasive articles about the GFDL. These "dissuasive" articles are written by people who do not understand that documentation and software must be treated differently because they are different. Indeed, the GNU F

Re: GDL Guidebook : Help please !

2005-08-14 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
> I have a personal project to write a guidebook for Project > Management. I'd like to publish it under the GNU Free > Documentation License. The GFDL in its present form is non-free and somewhat buggy. Please, the GFDL is not non-free, do not spread these untruths. _

Re: GDL Guidebook : Help please !

2005-08-14 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 11:41 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > idea of "invariants". If you are afraid that someone will do something > horrible to your political diatribes publish them under non-free terms, but > keep them out of Free Software documentation. Technical interest might be an open door to

Re: GDL Guidebook : Help please !

2005-08-14 Thread John Hasler
Rui writes: > However, the DFSG is flawed when used against documents. Because of a > flawed reasoning, the RFCs have been moved into non-free. I said nothing about Debian or the DFSG. In fact, I disagree with the current Debian policy on documents. The GFDL has several problems. One is the co

Re: GDL Guidebook : Help please !

2005-08-14 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 19:02 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Mark writes: > > I have a personal project to write a guidebook for Project Management. > > I'd like to publish it under the GNU Free Documentation License. > > The GFDL in its present form is non-free and somewhat buggy. I suggest the > GPL

Re: GDL Guidebook : Help please !

2005-08-14 Thread David Kastrup
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I have a personal project to write a guidebook for Project Management. > > I'd like to publish it under the GNU Free Documentation License. > > Has anyone already had an experience of this kind of thing - pitfalls > to avoid, distribution, communication ? > >

Re: GDL Guidebook : Help please !

2005-08-13 Thread Mark
John Hasler wrote: Mark writes: I have a personal project to write a guidebook for Project Management. I'd like to publish it under the GNU Free Documentation License. The GFDL in its present form is non-free and somewhat buggy. I suggest the GPL (yes, you _can_ use it for documents). Fail

Re: GDL Guidebook : Help please !

2005-08-13 Thread John Hasler
Mark writes: > I have a personal project to write a guidebook for Project Management. > I'd like to publish it under the GNU Free Documentation License. The GFDL in its present form is non-free and somewhat buggy. I suggest the GPL (yes, you _can_ use it for documents). Failing that I suggest on

GDL Guidebook : Help please !

2005-08-13 Thread Mark
Hi, I have a personal project to write a guidebook for Project Management. I'd like to publish it under the GNU Free Documentation License. Has anyone already had an experience of this kind of thing - pitfalls to avoid, distribution, communication ? I've done a few Google searches, but I'm no