On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:40:51 +0000, MJ Ray said:
I think *updating* the FDL is more important than updating the GPLs.
I concur. The GFDL is suffering from a lot of practical problems and even didn't achieved its goal to foster publishing of free documentation as woodware. Even worse, GNU maintainers have been forced to change all documentation to the GFDL and only a few resisted and kept foing with the GPL.
We now have the so-called printer friendly GFDL and not to long ago the FSF gave up on GNU press and laid off the responsible editor. GFDL a success?
As far as we know, we have working GPLs, but we have a FDL which
There are actually a couple of mid-term problems which should be solved by a new GPL but the whole process thing is too much of big business and too less of modern communication. Its like the old FSF closed shop development model.
I agree that it compromises on openness. Who are secret juntas A-E and will their proceedings be public?
I'd like to know this too. The only detail I know is that minutes From the commitee meetings will be published. A bit of glasnost would do good.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner