Re: linuxdoc.org: copyright and Manifesto

[Guylhem Aznar <guylhem@oeil.qc.ca>]

On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:41:26AM -0700, {poet} wrote:
> Personally I still think it is stupid that we allow LICENSING of 
> documentation. The GPL is not a documentation license. People have 
> stated that it will work for documentation, this may be true but it is
> still a little backwards..

We asked RMS to write a DGPL, it will be ready in a near future.

I think we should prefer it to any other license.

However, each author would be free to choose any other license, we could
just recommand DGPL.

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