[Fedora-legal-list] Free software licenses and documentation

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 23:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 15:16 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing does not mention GPL etc as 
> >> permissible for documentation though I pretty sure we do ship GPL'ed 
> >> documentation. Perhaps a generic note should be added that what is 
> >> permissible for code is permissible for content (though may or may not 
> >> be suitable).
> > 
> > It's not generally true. The GPL, while used for some documentation, is
> > a terrible choice. Other licenses are worse, because they explicitly
> > make references to code. I've purposely not listed the GPL here, because
> > neither Fedora nor the FSF wants to encourage its usage as a
> > documentation license.
> 
> Right. So why not list GPL specifically as permissible but not recommended?

Fair enough. Done.

~spot