FDL requirements for original author

[David Gerard]

[whoops, meant to send to list]

On 05/02/2008, David Picón Álvarez <eleuteri at myrealbox.com> wrote:

> >   Clearly, I can't recommend to use a license and infringe it:  What
> > license would you recommend for those who like the FDL but are
> > unwilling to reveal their LaTeX sources?

> It depends on what is it you like about FDL. Perhaps a Creative Commons
> attribution, no-derives, would serve your purposes? No-derives since, hiding
> the source seems to be directed towards that aim, although I'm not sure why
> you don't want to expose your LaTeX, so can't say.


Note also that PDFs aren't all that uneditable. If you don't have a
copy of the full proprietary Adobe Acrobat, there's PDFedit, which is
currently pretty rough but looks promising:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit

If people can see it, they can copy and change it.


- d.