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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] GPL / FDL
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Jimmy Wales |
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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] GPL / FDL |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:06:59 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.2i |
One way to solve this -- suggested to me by RMS, and it is a very
sensible idea -- is to require that articles accepted into Nupedia,
articles which have any substantive amount of code in them -- release
the code under GPL, and the article (including the code) under the FDL.
I think that's very sensible. Otherwise you could have code in an
ostensibly free document, which is itself _not_ free (in the sense
that is important for code, i.e. compiling and running it).
Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Btw, keep in mind that the GPL and the FDL are two similar but
> incompatible licenses. I.e., work provided under the GPL cannot be
> auto-changed to FDL. What this means for sample-programs-in-a-book, or
> documention-in-a-software-distro, I'm not sure, but I suspect if someone
> wished to do things like this, it could become "legally intricate", so
> to speak.
>
> However it is possible to completely sidestep the issue by "dual
> licensing" everything under both the FDL and the GPL. This is a
> suggestion RMS himself suggested to me for something else. We may also
> want to consider doing this here.
>
> Bryce
>
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