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Re: Writing GNUstep book on wikibooks


From: Alex Perez
Subject: Re: Writing GNUstep book on wikibooks
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:19:44 -0700 (PDT)

On 7 Sep 2004, MJ Ray wrote:

> Banlu Kemiyatorn <object@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I see nothing wrong with the FDL GNUstep book. Please keep in mind that
> > GNUstep is a project of Free Software Foundation and you _can_ GPL the
> > example code in the GNUstep FDL book.
> 
> Being in support of free software leads to two logical conclusions:
> - why support a licence which obstructs free software?
> - if you are going to GPL the code, you probably want to GPL the
> description of that code so people can include the explanation in
> their source code comments if they wish, so where do you draw the
> line and why not GPL the entire book, because the GPL can be used
> that way without too much trouble?

You can also simply dual-license anything written under the FDL under the 
GPL as well. Also, it is my understanding that the FDL 2.0 will not be GPL 
incompatible. All this anal-retentiveness over nothing.





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