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

["SamBC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As far as I'm concerned, the FDL is too open to be proprietary and too
closed to be free... I have been trying to draft a documentation license
that suits the purposes of a project I am working on, which has some
similarities to the FDL, but you'd all probably hate it as it is in some
ways more closed.

However, FDL is still in the spirit of GNU/FSF and OpenSource, as it is
still copyleft &so on &so forth. I dislike it for making half-hearted
attempts to protect the authors rights (as they would be seen in a
commercial environment) and my license attempts to protect these rights
while still being completely open. It is a bit like a documentation version
of QPL, but a tad more free than that! More like the artistic license I
think...

Anyway, that was OT and I apologise, I just felt like saying it...


SamBC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bashiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bashiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski
> Sent: 04 July 2000 00:55
> To: Erik Sigra
> Cc: Freeciv Development Mailing List
> 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.
>
>
>