On Sunday 03 June 2007 09:05:05 Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 19:38:09 -0600 Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > Well, maybe that is changing ... the latest draft says in the > > Preample: > > > > "The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for > > software and other kinds of works." > > Section 0. of the GNU GPL *v2* states, in part: > | 0. This License applies to any program or other work [...] > | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > | The "Program", below, refers to any such program or work [...] > | ^^^^^^^ > > I think even the GNU GPL *v2* was designed with the applicability to > non-program works in mind. It was certainly designed *primarily* for > programs, but also in such a way to be applicable to any work of > authorship. > > At least, that's my understanding after reading the license text so many > times... True, but it does seem that that the [draft] GPLv3 features this a bit more prominently (first line in the preamble, more clear in the definitions, some of the non-source conveying options are less ambiguous now with non-program works, etc). Anyway, not that it particularly matters——GPLv2 in practice already works pretty well for almost all non-program works——it was mostly just an interesting observation. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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