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

["Martin Pollard" <circlemaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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.

 

M Pollard

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.

 

M Pollard