[Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

[David Gerard]

2008/11/4 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:05 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Whether that's the legal case is entirely up in the air. Even the FSF
>> don't know, and I did in fact directly ask them.

> The FSF isn't in the business of giving legal advice, but it simply
> isn't true that they don't know if the FDL is a copyleft license:
> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-05-08-fdl-scope


Indeed. However, that's not what I claimed. I claimed that their
uselessness on the topic of answering even "what did you mean here?"
is severely problematic. I suspect the FSF except RMS would happily
rid themselves of the GFDL if they could.


- d.