Re: Gnus Manual License
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:19:24 +0200, Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> said:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>> Maybe you should ask that question to the publishers who refused
>> printing GNU manuals under simpler licenses. There is a _reason_
>> that the GFDL was created.
> Why doesn't the FSF ask them that question?
They probably did, which is probably what contributed to the writing of
the GFDL. I don't think that the FSF created the GFDL by guessing at
what the problems were.
Mind you, if David is claiming that publishers have problems with the
GPL, then I think that it is up to him to back up those claims by
stating what the problems are.
The one problem that he did bring up, the problem of the source
requirement, isn't very convincing to me.
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