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You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION! | You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION! | ||
Before we get started, are we happy with the GNU FDL as | Before we get started, are we happy with the GNU FDL as Wikipedia uses? There are a lot of [http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html reasons not to use it]; perhaps we shoud pick a more liberal [http://www.creativecommons.org Creative Commons] license instead? Even the GNU folks state: | ||
"We believe that published software and documentation should be free software and free documentation. We recommend making all sorts of educational and reference works free also, using free documentation licenses such as the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL). For other kinds of works, we recommend you consider the licenses proposed by Creative Commons." ([http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#TOCOtherWorks source]) | |||
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Before we get started, are we happy with the GNU FDL as Wikipedia uses? There are a lot of reasons not to use it; perhaps we shoud pick a more liberal Creative Commons license instead? Even the GNU folks state:
"We believe that published software and documentation should be free software and free documentation. We recommend making all sorts of educational and reference works free also, using free documentation licenses such as the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL). For other kinds of works, we recommend you consider the licenses proposed by Creative Commons." (source)