Gnu FDL

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:13:34 +0100
votes

My suggestion for the GFDL vote is 1342

( 1 ) Choice 1: "GFDL-licensed works are unsuitable for main in all cases"

of course that only means documents only available under FDL or only available under FDL or other non-free software licenses. Documents also available under BSD, GPL or whatever are still free. That "in all cases" means without looking at the loudness of the proponents of some document.

( 3 ) Choice 2: "GFDL-licensed works without unmodifiable sections are free"

This does not mean "without unmodifiable sections", it means "without additional unmodifiable sections". FDL has always to include the license within the work. (I still do not know how to include the license within a binary easily. But as the FDL as GPL-incompatible anyway it perhaps makes such work-flows impossible, anyway).

( 4 ) Choice 3: "GFDL-licensed works are compatible with the DFSG [needs 3:1]"

That's even worse. We have non-free for non-free stuff some of our users might not live without. (Or think so). Foist non-free stuff on them will severely hurt them in the long run.

( 2 ) Choice 4: Further discussion

Don't forget this option. If you do not like choice 2 (perhaps because you think like me that it is almost choice 3), rank 4 above it. Otherwise with equally many [3214] and [1234] votes, choice 2 would most likely win.

So only rank 2 above 4, if you want to see 2 in action. Otherwise vote 4 over 2. (same with 3 and 4, but 3 does not look so innocent as 2)