Re: GPL for documentation ?

[MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com>]

Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org> wrote:
> [...] I'm not convinced that was solely so they could force copies of 
> the GNU Manifesto to be prepended to everything.

I'm pretty sure the need to offer bigger incentives
to existing publishers, authors used to working
in the old-fashioned publishing models and other
sponsors to help create GNU manuals played a part in
it. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-gfdl.html and
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html