the GNU Free Documentation License (the GPL for books)?
Does anyone know of any sites that have a lot of links to various books published with the GNU Free Documentation License (the GPL for books)?
Does anyone know of any books (besides Free as in Freedom the Richard Stallman biography) published this way? Does the GFDL cover man pages, or is that an extension of the GPL? I know O'Reilly is now using a modified copyright for their books (it lasts for 17 years only I believe), but does anyone else know of any authors or publishers using alternative copyrights? What do ya'll think of the GFDL? Do you think books are so fundamentally different from code that it doesn't work? Thanks for any info or opinions you could give me. Michael |
The Linux Network Administrator's Guide is one book they publish that uses the GFDL. The Linux Documentation Project contains Guides which are book length and use the GFDL. http://www.tldp.org
More information on the GFDL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL |
www.oreilly.com/openbooks has a lot of Free/freedom books.
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Sorry for a stupid question.
After reading http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/fdl-howto.html, I still have no concrete idea on how to license a document. Does it mean that if a person wants to license a document under GFDL, he can simply put the declaration (http://www.fsf.org/licensing/license...howto-opt.html) Code:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this Thanks in advice. |
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