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Re: GFDL v2 draft 1 analysis [long]



On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:47:36 +1100 Andrew Donnellan wrote:

> On 12/10/06, Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote:
[...]
> > When I say "pseudonym" I mean a virtual identity that (ideally)
> > cannot be traced back to the real identity behind it.
> > Something like a nym provided by a nym server, for instance.
> 
> I'm not sure what level is required - do they need to be simply
> contactable online, or in real life, or what?
> 
> I think that this license does not allow anonymous or even
> pseudonymous publication.

This is was I suspect, too.

[...]
> > Is the LGPL a copyleft license, after all?
> > Maybe the "weak" adjective actually refers to this limited
> > possibility to add restrictions...
> 
> Well, it is a 'weak' license, with a 'weak' copyleft. Perhaps FSF
> should have made the LGPL simply GPL+an exception, it would take away
> all the GPL special-casing in the LGPL.

Actually this is exactly what the FSF is doing for LGPLv3: the first
draft is phrased as a set of additional permissions on top of the GPLv3.

-- 
But it is also tradition that times *must* and always
do change, my friend.   -- from _Coming to America_
..................................................... Francesco Poli .
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