[Textbook-l] different open content licenses

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:07:45PM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> I tend to agree but in the real world the GNU FDL is the license used by the 
> great majority of free content (not just Wikipedia ; CC is a suite of 
> licenses, not a single license, but together they are gaining some ground). 
> So our strategy should be to go with the flow and try to change that license 
> instead of making things really complicated by having a bunch of different 
> licenses within one project. 
> 
> I'm sure RMS will listen to our concerns since Wikipedia is by far the largest 
> GNU FDL project in the world and I'm sure RMS is also concerned about 
> Debian's decision. The whole point of the GNU FDL was to have a license for 
> software documentation and yet anybody who wants their documentation in 
> Debian won't use this license - hence the license needs to be overhauled. 

RMS proved himself to be quite resistant to any criticism. Invariant sections
were widely criticized even before GFDL was officialy released. I doubt we
can make him care about it.