[Textbook-l] different open content licenses

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 05:46:14PM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> Wouter Vanden Hove wrote:
> >...
> >I also would like to point out the recent Debian 
> >decision to consider the GFDL as a non-free license. 
> >This has been debated for months on debian-legal. You
> 
> >can read the archives here:
> >http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/
> 
> Side note: They only consider GFDLd text to be
> "non-free" when "Invariant Sections", "Cover Texts",
> "Acknowledgements", and/or "Dedications" (all GFDL
> options) are used. We don't use any of those so our
> text is free content. 

That's right wrt Debian. Now that's a real shame that
GFDL has such options at all - they're all plain non-free.