[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#12909) GPL licensing of wiki pages

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12909 >

> [circlemaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Wed Apr 27 17:15:49 2005]:
> 
> Whilst I admire your free software spirit for licensing your web pages GPL
> you've kinda got the wrong license.  The GPL is designed for CODE and is
> worded accordingly, using it for documentation is kinda legally shakey to
> say the least because you leave too much open to interpretation.  If you
> want a license that follows the same spirit as the GPL but is designed for
> documentation the FSF has the GFDL
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html that
> would probably be more appropriate for your needs.

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License#Criticisms_of_the_GFDL
.  The GFDL is not compatible with the GPL and isn't even considered a
"Free" Licence.

-jason