Documentation Licensing

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 14 13:51:58 UTC 2009


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 03:30:17AM -0400, Jason Carson wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Can someone briefly tell if there is any major difference between the GNU
> FDL and the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/
> 
> All I want is that someone can take my documentation and modify it for
> commercial or non commercial purposes provided the modified work is also
> licensed under the same license and remains free.

Well I know Debian seems OK with the GNU FDL as long as it contains no
'invariant' sections.  They consider any GFDL with invariant sections
to be 'non free'.

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