On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 09:48:00 +0700, "Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" said:
May I know, how close to a "contribution to the public"; the GNU Free
Documentation License is? See also
http://gnux.vlsm.org/copyleft/fdl.txt
Not very. At least it's not as viral as the GPL, and they don't
require you (in section 3) to *personally* distribute sources for
3 years if you ship binaries of GPL programs (which irked me no end
when building installable packages for AIX - even though I made *no*
source changes, I asked (and was told) that just pointing at ftp.gnu.org
for the source wasn't acceptable). You only need take "prudent steps"
for one year to ensure the place you point people stays there.
Remember that the GNU crowd has an agenda, and their licensing is
written to enforce that agenda.
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech