Hi Cliff,
> I looked at this a while back, and the license I settled on as my
> favorite in this case was the Apple Common Documentation License:
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/cdl/ I like this one because a) it
> seems the most GPL like of licenses created specifically for text
> content and b) it's written by Apple, so presumably they hired Real
> Lawyers to get it right. I recommend against the GFDL, since its
> invariant clause causes no end of trouble and IIRC is actually rejected
> as a free license by the Debian project.
I agree that the invariant section stuff in the GFDL is clumsy.
I looked at the CDL via the link above and it seems straightforward.
I'd be willing to accept that as a document license.
Maybe others can take a look at it and offer an opinion.
best,
Robert