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RE: CF: Licensing



(I really need to get my mail shifted back to Unix...)
Reply below.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Wedel
To: Frank Tore Johansen
Cc: crossfire@ifi.uio.no
Sent: 3/27/00 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: CF: Licensing

Frank Tore Johansen wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, dragonm wrote:

<snip>

 Before spending much time on licensing issues of crossfire, I would like to
have some idea of what shortcomings the GPL has for crossfire.  As far
as I am concerned, it doesn't really have any that I can immediately see.

-----Begin Reply------
The shortcoming I can see, and that Richard Stallman saw, was that the
wording of the GPL is very specific to computer software and source code.
It makes a lot of assumptions within its text that it's being applied to
compileable material.  Stallman decided that a separate license needed to
exist for material that accompanies GPL'ed code but isn't code itself.  The
result was the Free Documentation License.  Other people also saw the need,
and created the OpenContent license.

The FDL applies quite nicely to the Player's Handbook.  However, it has the
same shortcoming as the GPL: it's too specific.  It applies to documentation
and is worded as such.  Applying it to the graphics wouldn't necessarily be
recommended.  The OpenContent license might apply better to the graphics.

In any case, if nobody else is troubled by the ambiguity, I won't push the
issue.  I don't think it would be all that much work to clear it up, but if
nobody else cares, so be it.

DM
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