Re: Should our documentation be free? (Was Re: Inconsistencies in
Brian T. Sniffen said:
>
> That's not true. The BSD license is granted to all third parties, so
> if I find a section of some proprietary code I know was written by UCB,
> I can just take that section. The GFDL is a license only to the
> recipient, so in order to take a free section from an older version,
> I'd need to have received that version.
Ok, that sounds reasonable.
(Except that the GFDL defines "you" as <quote>Any member of the public is a
licensee, and is addressed as "you".</quote> (Section 1, 1st paragraph) so I
was a licensee of the previous version, I just didn't know it)
--Joe
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