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Re: GNU Free Documentation License v1.3



On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 17:53 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> If the consensus is that GFDL 1.3 is as DFSG-compliant as it 1.2 was,
> then I would like to include it in common-licenses in base-files for lenny
> (in addition to 1.2, that is) as a "bonus".
> 
> Reasons:
> 
> * The symlink GFDL is supposed to point to the latest version available.
> * Works under GFDL-1.2 (not "1.2 or newer") should not refer to the
>   symlink but to the versioned license "GFDL-1.2".
> * It will make copyright-file compliance easier for packages in backports.
>   No need to update base-files in backports.org just to add a new license
>   as it happened in etch.
> 
> So, if you have a strong reason why this should not be done, please speak now.
> 

This is not a strong feeling, simply a comment:
I find it strange to add a licence that was created with a very specific
goal in mind (relicencing wikipedia) which will expire in 9 months
(August next year).

kk

> Thanks.
> 
> 
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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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