licensing -- will GFDL work?

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 14:35, C. Perry Willett wrote:
> For option 1, I would recommend looking at
> <http://www.creativecommons.org>. They have a series of model
> licenses available, depending on answers to three questions:
> 1) Require attribution?
> 2) Allow commercial uses?
> 3) Allow modifications?
> 
> Answers to these questions lead to different licenses, which
> all come with both a human-friendly summary and lawyer-friendly
> full text. 

If you answer yes, yes, yes, isn't the result effectively the same as
the GFDL? after all, CC say explicitly:
"If you are interesting in licensing software documentation or other
supporting text for a piece of code, we recommend the GNU Free
Documentation License."


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