Daniel Mayer wrote:
I just realized something I should have a long time
ago; Our use of the GNU
FDL is completely copyleft. Read below;
:Permission is granted to copy, distribute
:and/or modify this document under the
:terms of the GNU Free Documentation
:License, Version 1.2 or any later version
:published by the Free Software Foundation;
:with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover
:Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
Note especially "with no Invariant Sections, no
Front-Cover Texts, and no
Back-Cover Texts." Hence, we only give permission to use our text if the 3rd
party does /not/ add Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts, or Back-Cover
Texts.
Unfortunately, that's not how the GNU FDL works.
When we use the FDL, we must specify the terms of its use,
which include specifying the invariant sections and the cover texts.
But the "with no ..." clause talks about /our/ release;
it doesn't change the ways that /others/ can release modification.
IOW, it talks about how others can /modify/ our version,
but it doesn't change how they can /release/ their modification.
Rather, how others can release their modifications
is covered in detail in section 4 of the licence, including:
"If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections
"or appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections
"and contain no material copied from the Document,
"you may at your option designate some or all of these sections
"as invariant." Such as the section "Why EB kicks Wiki ass".
Also, this says nothing about the Dedications section,
which is invariant and hence not free.
(Other sections are referred to by name throughout the licence;
some of these are problematic as well.)
-- Toby