[csw-maintainers] License for makefiles and other packages component

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Mon Mar 16 21:27:51 -0400 2009:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 08:02:48PM -0400, Ben Walton wrote:
> > Just my 2 cents for the evening.  I really am ok with this if we want
> > to blanket license (for simplicity or sanity or whatever) all
> > descriptions under the same license as mGar itself (GPLv2).
> 
> that would be inappropriate. for multiple reasons, but also for reasons
> that the Gnu foundation itself raises; pure GPL is unsuited for
> documentation and non"code" entities. thats why the 
> "gnu free documentation license" or whatever was invented.

Well, I was only referring to the code bits, but point taken.

-Ben


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