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| | Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License - Wikipedia |
 | | We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free software, because free software needs free documentation: a free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the software does. | | | We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference. | | | A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with modifications and/or translated into another language. |
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GNU_Free_Documentation_License
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| | Licenses |
| | Documentation for free software should be free documentation, so that people can redistribute it and improve it along with the software it describes. | | | Copyleft is a general method for making a program free software and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free software as well. | | | The GNU General Public License is often called the GNU GPL for short; it is used by most GNU programs, and by more than half of all Free Software packages. |
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
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| | ONLamp.com -- Open Source and Free Documentation Licenses, Part 1: The GNU FDL |
| | Open source and free software licensing is generally associated with software development, and for good reason. | | | The ideas underlying open source licensing were all developed in the context of software creation. | | | Its preamble states its purposes as, first, making "free" (in the sense of readily available for distribution) manuals, textbooks, and other useful written works and, second, assuring credit to the original author of the work. |
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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/09/16/OSlicenses.html
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| | NewsForge The GNU Free Documentation License |
| | Finaly the idea of seperating free documentation from free software is dangerous. | | | A transparent copy is one made using free, machine-readable formats, such as HTML for text or PNG for graphics. | | | Opaque copies are ones in a proprietary format, such as Microsoft's.doc for text or the Adobe Illustrator (.ai) format for graphics. |
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http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/08/03/194237.shtml?tid=150
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| | GNU "Free Documentation License" Considered Harmful |
| | The placement of these documents in invariant sections in GNU Emacs documentation clearly discriminates against BSD developers who might like to excerpt the Emacs documents, at least against those who disagree with Copyleft on principle. | | | The FDL prevents XEmacs from using GNU Emacs manual text in XEmacs documentation. | | | See Why You Shouldn't Use the GNU FDL. |
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http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Tools/Attitude/fdl-harmful.html
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| | Wired News: Not Your Father's Encyclopedia |
| | A core group of regular contributors help monitor the site's recent changes page to quickly correct any errors and ensure that entries aren't vandalized. | | | These options allow contributors to constantly refine and comment upon entries. | | | But since neutrality is hard to maintain, "it's understandable if a sizeable number of articles have noticeable biases," said Sanger, who is also editor in chief of the free online, peer-reviewed encyclopedia Nupedia. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57364,00.html
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| | GNU Free Documentation License - Wipipedia |
| | The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) is a free content license that permits content to be reused by anyone, whilst ensuring that derived works are also free. | | | This page was last modified 13:00, 4 August 2005. |
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http://www.lfshosting.co.uk/wipi/index.php/GNU_Free_Documentation_License
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