Re: A single unified license
Debian, like everyone, would love a single unified license. But
that's not the problem per-se. The problem is that we want all the
licenses to be free by a single definition. That some of the licenses
will be incompatible with each other is a problem, but not one that
impacts freedom.
The problem with the GFDL from our standpoint is *not* just that most
such text cannot be incorporated into a GPL'd program. As you rightly
point out, that was true for the old GNU documentation licenses too.
The problem about incorporation what we are concerned with is that
GFDL-with-invariant-sections text cannot be incorporated into a GPL'd
program: the problem is that it cannot be added into *ANY* free
program whatsoever. This is *not* true for text from the old GNU
documentation license.
Thomas
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