On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:07:45PM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
I tend to agree but in the real world the GNU FDL is the license used by the great majority of free content (not just Wikipedia ; CC is a suite of licenses, not a single license, but together they are gaining some ground). So our strategy should be to go with the flow and try to change that license instead of making things really complicated by having a bunch of different licenses within one project.
I'm sure RMS will listen to our concerns since Wikipedia is by far the largest GNU FDL project in the world and I'm sure RMS is also concerned about Debian's decision. The whole point of the GNU FDL was to have a license for software documentation and yet anybody who wants their documentation in Debian won't use this license - hence the license needs to be overhauled.
RMS proved himself to be quite resistant to any criticism. Invariant sections were widely criticized even before GFDL was officialy released. I doubt we can make him care about it.