Documentation Licensing

Barnboy bz at barnson.org
Thu May 6 03:24:38 UTC 2004


So I did a lot of reading this evening regarding the potential non-freeness
of the GFDL. From what I can tell, the argument centers around 'invariant
sections'. When originally writing the Guide, I decided against using them,
abd you'll note that the Bugzilla Guide has no invariant sections -- and
thus remains truly free documentation.

Just a thought... might be less hassle to not relicense :) Note I am not
trying to be an advocate for or against, but without invariant sections,
the Guide is perfectly free according to the Debian guidelines. So it seems
to be a non-issue in this case.

-- 
Matthew P. Barnson
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