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GNU Free Documentation License Released

Posted by timothy on from the free-as-in-free-association dept.

Jonathan Riddell writes "The FSF have quietly released The GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. There's been some controversy about the creation of this license and possible abuse of non-editable sections to make documents non-Free. A diff shows that there's been a fair number of changes. The FDL is in my opinion the most flexible way to keep documentation Free while preventing abuse from publishers."

2 of 7 comments (clear)

  1. We'll have to see how this develops by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Interesting. The author gets to decide whether certain sections are "Invariant," can't be modified, or not.

    If a translation is done of an Invariant section, the translator either needs the author's permission, or needs to include the original along with it.

  2. Re:problems with a central authority by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I second that. Don't click on it. It's a chick eating her own diahrea in a bathtub.