GPL vs GFDL

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:33:22 +0200


On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:56:55 +0200, Lorenzo Cappelletti said:

> think we'd better stick with GPL: 
> http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html - Why you shouldn't use 
> GNU FDL.

I have not read this.  However I agree that the FDL is a special
purposes license with some practical problems when used without
caution.  So indeed the GPL is better for this work.  Except for the
actual data (but not larger documents) where we still use the
"verbatim copying allowed".


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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