[GNUz] Blog entry about wiki licensing

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:00 +1200, Richard Tindall wrote:
> > On the other hand, the real discussion under the hood shows people 
> > having real problems with GFDL, and electing to use CC because of 
> > it's  simplicity - much like the original GPL.
> 
> I'm 'hearing' this echoed, but yet to see what the actual problem is. 

Try reading this page for example:

http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.html

Inflexibility is the big problem it would seem. Not inflexibility to
onsell, but inability to use in any sensible way. The page I pointed to
has some examples.


> Stripping out the GFDL for onsale? It's pretty danged plain to 
> comprehend, tho not as pretty as CC. (Gnu's are known to be ornary
> beasts ;)
-- 
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>