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software license whatsoever. So if you write a new program, and you have no commitments at all about what license you want to use, saving only that it be a free license, you cannot include GFDL'd text. The GNU FDL, as it stands today, does not meet the Debian Free
Software Guidelines. There are significant problems with the license, as detailed above; and, as such, we cannot accept works licensed under the GNU FDL into our distribution.
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the GNU FDL, they must also include a copyright notice and a physical printout of the GNU FDL, which is a significantly large document in itself. Worse, the same is required for the standalone use of just one (for example, Knowledge (XXG)) image. Several
Wikimedia projects have over the years abandoned the use of GFDL, among them the English Knowledge (XXG), which has relicensed the files.
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The goal of invariant sections, ever since the 80s when we first made the GNU Manifesto an invariant section in the Emacs Manual, was to make sure they could not be removed. Specifically, to make sure that distributors of Emacs that also distribute non-free software could not remove the statements of
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November 1, 2008, to Knowledge (XXG) as an example satisfied the conditions.
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If external content originally published on a MMC is present on the site, the work must have been licensed under
Version 1.3 of the GNU FDL, or an earlier version but with the "or any later version" declaration, with no cover texts or invariant sections. If it was not originally published on an MMC,
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provided that the invariant section clauses are not used. However, their resolution stated that even without invariant sections, GFDL-licensed software documentation is considered to be "still not free of trouble" by the project, namely because of its incompatibility with the major free software
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foundation, an organization devoted to creating manuals for free software, decided to eschew the GFDL in favor of the GPL for its texts in 2007, citing the incompatibility between the two, difficulties in implementing the GFDL, and the fact that the GFDL "does not allow for easy duplication and
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software documentation, some of whom were consulted during the drafting of the GFDL. "Endorsements" sections are intended to be used in official standard documents, where the distribution of modified versions should only be permitted if they are not labeled as that standard anymore.
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This means that you cannot publish them under DRM systems to restrict the possessors of the copies. It isn't supposed to refer to use of encryption or file access control on your own copy. I will talk with our lawyer and see if that sentence needs to be
264:(CC BY-SA) license. These changes were implemented on version 1.3 of the license, which includes a new provision allowing certain materials released under the (GFDL) license to be used under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license also.
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Creative Commons to modify the Free Documentation License in such a fashion as to allow the possibility for the Wikimedia Foundation to migrate the projects to the similar
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ethos while it is promoting a license that allows invariant sections to be applied to anything but the license text and attribution. the GFDL isn't consistent with the ethos that FSF has promoted for 19
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in some other countries) and does not need to be licensed to fall within the GFDL if such fair use is covered by all potential subsequent uses. One example of such liberal and commercial fair use is
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1037:"Why publishers should use the GNU FDL"
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1453:"Re: Proposed statement wrt GNU FDL"
1451:Braakman, Richard (April 20, 2003).
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1109:Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki
867:"WIKIPEDIA MOVES TO CC 4.0 LICENSES"
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684:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
489:The GNU FDL contains the statement:
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1280:"Why You Shouldn't Use the GNU FDL"
1199:"Why You Shouldn't Use the GNU FDL"
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849:"Knowledge (XXG):Licensing update"
635:List of projects that use the GFDL
88:November 3, 2008 (current version)
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1760:GNU Lesser General Public License
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588:Other licenses for free works
319:permit to retain the title).
2045:GNU/Linux naming controversy
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1077:Walsh, Jay (May 21, 2009).
1011:"Resolution:License update"
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297:Technical measures such as
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1563:Judson, Thomas W. (2015).
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313:GNU General Public License
227:The GFDL was designed for
222:GNU General Public License
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431:digital rights management
327:Commercial redistribution
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2103:Free Software Foundation
1727:History of free software
1705:Free Software Foundation
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624:Open Publication License
444:, Nathanael Nerode, and
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32:GFDL (disambiguation)
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1205:on December 10, 2007
729:by Thomas W. Judson.
657:Wikimedia Foundation
645:adding missing items
614:Open Content License
370:Wikimedia Foundation
257:Wikimedia Foundation
2062:Defective by Design
2029:Richard M. Stallman
1035:Stallman, Richard.
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