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are there any differences between the GNU FDL (free document license) and the OCL?

the OCL appears to be shorter. i mean differences in 'spirit' :)

ArnoHollosi: yes, there are. The OCL is closer to the BSD license, i.e. if you'd take the stuff of SL and make a book out of it, you are not supposed to provide the book in electronic form (BSD license: make a binary out of a BSD source code without publishing the source). The GNU FDL requires a human readable electronic copy as well (GNU distinguishes between opaque copies (ones which can't be processed automatically by computers) and other copies).

I think this is the main difference. Both make sure, that if you take content and use it that the resulting work is open/free content as well.

There has been much debate about the different kinds of freedom by Tim O'Reilly, RMS, and ESR. Search the web for it.



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