licensing -- will GFDL work?

[David G. Durand]

>  > Other possibilities include
>>  * finding some other license,
>>  * living with the slim possibility someone would actually take
>>    advantage of the license and do something we didn't like,
>>  * writing a TEI Free Documentation License.
>
>I'd go for the middle one.
>\

As I.
There's also an "endorsements" provision that allows you to specify 
conditions under which a document must have its endorsements removed 
-- the endorsement of the document could also constitute a seal of 
approval for DTDs constructed according to its provisions.

Plus, whatever the FSF may say, we can declare the relevance of the 
invariance provision when we grant a license whether or not _they_ 
approve of our rationale.

>But I heartily approve the idea that you chat
>to the FSF folks and explain our needs. That
>sounds like entirely the right way to move forward

The only thing that worries me is that I don't think the FSF is 
entirely rational; I would not want to be bound by their 
interpretation -- or the target of one of their campaigns, if we rub 
them the wrong way.

   -- David

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