FDL requirements for original author

Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Sat Feb 9 13:06:57 UTC 2008


Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> writes:

> The FDL was specifically designed for manuals accompanying programs.
> I argue instead that, because of the incompatibility between the FDL
> and works commonly applied to programs, a better choice instead is
> to apply the *same* license to both the program and the manual that
> accompanies it.

This should read "… incompatibility between the FDL and licenses
commonly applied to programs …"

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