On 12/18/05, Richard Fateman wrote:
> Do you mean
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License
> ?
No, I mean GNU Public License, which is the license
under which the code is released.
> Could you explain what you are trying to protect?
(1) Ability of someone other than the copyright holder
to copy and distribute the original.
(2) Ability of someone other than the copyright holder
to create and distribute derivative works.
(3) Enable (1) and (2) without requiring authors to
relinquish their copyright.
Unless (1) and (2) are specifically allowed, parties other
than the copyright holder are limited to "fair use".
> Are there examples of many-authored manuals for
> complex and changing programs that we could emulate?
> e.g. something like CMU Common Lisp? or Wikipedia
> (which isn't compatible with GPL, apparently).
Well, most or all of the GNU project documentation is
licensed under GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
So is Wikipedia, as it turns out.
best,
Robert Dodier