Fastfission wrote:
I think what you mean is Internet-only license. It is very easy to include the GFDL in an electronic medium. It is relatively hard to include it in a print one.
It's not even an internet-only license: The only major category of works (of which I'm aware) for which displaying the GFDL in its entirety is burdensome is *short* printed works. Longer printed works are, after all, what the GFDL was originally intended for, and in fact most of the license makes clearer sense with printed works than on the internet ("front-cover texts" and so on). Printing the GFDL in a 300-page book isn't too much of a burden.
It *is* true that the FSF doesn't appear to have anticipated the possibility that people might want to reproduce short excerpts from GFDL'd works, rather than always reproducing the entire work as a book.
-Mark