Adeodato Simó wrote:
> Debian and the GNU Free Documentation License
> =============================================
>
> This is the position of the Debian Project about the GNU Free Documentation
> License as published by the Free Software Foundation:
>
> 1. We consider that the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2
> conflicts with traditional requirements for free software, since it
> allows for non-removable, non-modifiable parts to be present in
> documents licensed under it. Such parts are commonly referred to as
> "invariant sections", and are described in Section 4 of the GFDL.
>
> As modifiability is a fundamental requirement of the Debian Free
> Software Guidelines, this restriction is not acceptable for us, and
> we cannot accept in our distribution works that include such
> unmodifiable content.
>
> 2. At the same time, we also consider that works licensed under the
> GNU Free Documentation License that include no invariant sections
> do fully meet the requirements of the Debian Free Software
> Guidelines.
>
> This means that works that don't include any Invariant Sections,
> Cover Texts, Acknowledgements, and Dedications (or that do, but
> permission to remove them is explicitly granted), are suitable for
> the main component of our distribution.
>
> 3. Despite the above, GFDL'd documentation is still not free of
> trouble, even for works with no invariant sections: as an example,
> it is incompatible with the major free software licenses, which
> means that GFDL'd text can't be incorporated into free programs.
>
> For this reason, we encourage documentation authors to license
> their works (or dual-license, together with the GFDL) under the
> same terms as the software they refer to, or any of the traditional
> free software licenses like the the GPL or the BSD license.
I second it.
Cheers,
Moritz
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