See the attached forwarded item, in which rms mentions that a collection of documents can be accompanied by one single copy of the license being discussed. That would solve our problems. Thoughts? -- Jason Pincin Linux Knowledge Base Project Leader (http://www.linuxkb.org) http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros
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- Subject: Re: [ode] [rms@gnu.org: Re: Updating the OpenContent license]
- From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 22:18:26 -0700 (MST)
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I think the problem is where do you draw the line. 1 page? 5? 10? I don't see a need to draw a line at a specific place. The smaller the document, the more it seems wasteful to add a long license, and the less important it is what the license might be (since it is not hard to redo a small job from scratch anyway). If you are the author, you can decide which is worth doing. By the way, I am working on a paragraph to permit a collection of manuals to come with just one copy of the license. That should help many, though not all, situations with small manuals.
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