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Re: DFSG4 and combined works



Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:55:11AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> 
>> But that isn't my point.  My point is that you can't include the
>> GFDL'd material in any free program.  (Or, by doing so, you render the
>> program non-free.)  This is not controversial; even the FSF agrees.
>
> This won't be true if you use dual licensing.  I showed one way to
> achieve this in http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/02/msg00472.html

However, the resulting program is *not* a free program!

I cannot include GFDL'd text in a BSD-licensed program without
*changing the license to require the GFDL's terms*.  



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