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Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal



Hello,

Yes it would, but I leave that to the authors. It is the authors ultimate
responsibility to decide the extent of their agreement with "free".

J

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Richard Stallman wrote:

>The GFDL will be used in the future for all GNU manuals, and for some
>commercial free manuals.  Using the GFDL for LDP manuals will make it
>possible to move text between these manuals, much as using the GPL for
>software makes it possible to move code between programs.
>
>So I suggest that people choose the GFDL rather than the GPL for
>their manuals.
>
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