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From: Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>
Subject: Re: What license for Worg?
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> what is the most suitable license (or licensing scheme) for Worg?
> 
> Here is the best solution I can think of: dual-licensing[1] under the
> GNU Free Documentation License 1.3[2] and the Creative Commons BY-SA
> 3.0[3] license.  This solution would make it possible to take excerpts
> from Worg and put them into Org manual for later inclusion in Emacs,
> which uses GFDL 1.3 for the Emacs manual.
> 
> Would any Worg contributor have objection to this?
> 
That's fine with me. However, I think you may have to begin the long and
tedious task of identifying all contributors to Worg and asking their
permission. If this isn't done we may end up with "Free" and "Non free"
versions of Worg.

Ian.