[Freeciv-Dev] Re: SV: Re: historical background on wonders

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:52:54PM +0200, Erik Sigra wrote:
> It just occured to me that the best way to implement historical information
> (about governments, technologies, units, wonders, terrains, improvements,
> facilities, ...) in Freeciv is linking to a general GNU Free Documentation
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Licenced (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) encyclopedia (Gnupedia).
  ^^^^^^^^
> If there is no such thing, I can start writing one together with the other
> people here who wanted to add historical information. I'm thinking of a net
> of linked articles. Of course we would start with articles needed for Freeciv.
> Later it can grow with the help of other people from other projects with 
> similar needs.

Please, don't.

FDL is half-proprietary licence and not at all GPL-compatible.
I'm VERY disappoinetd that GNU did such a crap.

Details:
FDL sections 4L, 5, 8, HowToUse
Especially: Front-cover, Back-cover, Invariant-section.