On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 06:40:11PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > The GNU FDL and OPL are new licenses relative to the BSD, Artistic, and > > GNU GPL. It is perfectly consistent to expect these new licenses to be > > used more widely in the future. It is not reasonable to expect them to > > have been used before they were written. > > However, even under the existing licenses there are lots of invariant > sections. No, just the license text, except for the 4-clause BSD license, which has long been deprecated by Debian (and the California Regents as well). Of the existing licenses that has come up in this discussion, only the OPL and GNU FDL encourage withholding the right to modify from large pieces of text/code written by the author. -- G. Branden Robinson | When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Anton Wilson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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