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Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation



Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> writes:

> On 2006-02-09, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote:
>> What really got me saying "whoa!" though is the blog post linked from the
>> ticket comments -- the fourth paragraph seems to say that Savannah changed
>> it's policy because Debian doesn't think the GFDL is DFSG-free.  Worrying,
>> if true.
>
> The blog entry is now gone. Any one got a copy ?

The policy statement in the FAQ seems to have changed:

>For documentation, we are currently clarifying exactly what licenses we
>accept. Of course, we accept our GNU Free Documentation License (and
>compatibles), even if it is not compatible with the GNU GPL.

Interesting.

cheers, Rich.

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