[Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

[geni]

2009/1/8 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/1/8 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
>
>> Not at all. There are quite a number of benefits. In fact one thing
>> the switch doesn't do is address the problem that copyright law as we
>> know it doesn't work to well about  20 authors. Other than MITT and
>> BSD style licenses all free licenses break down when you throw enough
>> authors at them.
>
>
> Depends what you call "enough", but the GPL is doing okay.

Heh try using linux kernal code in a software manual while properly
following the GPL. Screenshots also don't look to pretty either.
Remember under GPL 2.0 section 3 it can be argued that screenshots of
a system running linux need to at least come with an offer to
distribute the source code of the version of Linux being run (gets
even more fun with multiple bits of software running). While GPL 2.0
doesn't suffer from having to credit too many people the copyright
notices (aka back door invariant sections) and the requirement to
preserve references to the GPL will tend to build up in much the same
way.

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geni