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

["Erik Sigra" <sigra@xxxxxxx>]

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From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>
To: Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Freeciv Development Mailing List <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 1:54 AM
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: SV: Re: historical background on wonders


> 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.
> 
Then what license should be used for free documentation? GPL? I can use that 
license if it is better.