[To judge from the Reply-To: header, mave wants replies to his personal email. So this is going both to <textbook-L> and directly to mav.]
Maveric149 wrote in part:
What is so limiting about the GNU FDL? It was specifically written for textbooks and manuals.
It has parts that we don't like, of course. You shouldn't have to repeat your points 50 times, but we shouldn't have to repeat ours 50 times either.
We already plan to work with the GNU people to fix the parts of the license we don't like.
Having read more RMS philosophy, I'm now prepared to reply to this: Dream on. It would be great to fix the GNU FDL, but it'll never happen; RMS believes that Invariant Sections are an absolute necessity.
-- Toby