[school-discuss] GNU Free Documentation License, draft of 1.2

[Felipe Bergo <bergo@seul.org>]

Hello,

As some of you may already know, the Free Software Foundation published
its Free Documentation License (FDL) to provide a license providing
freedom for documentation writers and readers like the GPL attempts to
provide freedom for software writers and users.

The current version is 1.1, released on March 2000. The FSF
has just put up a draft of the 1.2 version at

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html

Many of you are teachers/educators who are writing open courses,
tutorials, etc. All would benefit of free texts that could be distributed
and enhanced based on a known, reasonable set of rules (the FDL), instead
of starting new curricula/tutorials/books from scratch every time you want
to add something to the current knowledge base.

FSF is taking comments until March 1 2002. If there is anything on FDL you 
don't like, or that restrains you from using it in your documents, it 
would be a good idea to let FSF know about it.

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Felipe Paulo Guazzi Bergo - Free Software Developer (bergo@seul.org)
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