SSB Universes Wiki:GNU Free Documentation License: Difference between revisions

The main issue with using the GNU Free Documentation License is that it forces the preservation of a series of texts, which is inconvenient under certain circumstances. For example, when publishing a book under the GFDL in paper form, if its history is very long, a percentage of it could be a list of contributions. It also creates incompatibilities with other free licenses, such as the [[wikipedia:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]], which proponents of the GNU Free Documentation License justify by the need to prevent third parties from improving the document, and appropriating it. In our case, the "third parties" would mean certain other wikis such as a majority of wikis on [https://www.fandom.com/ Fandom] or even the [https://www.mariowiki.com/ Super Mario Wiki] cannot copy text from this website, namely "Modified Versions" based on the text that they had while using the GNU Free Documentation License.<ref>"You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release the Modified Version '''under precisely this License''', with the Modified Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy of it." - [https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.en.html GNU Free Documentation License]. Retrieved February 11, 2025.</ref>

The information on this page has been translated from [https://www.wikidex.net/wiki/WikiDex:Licencia_de_documentaci%C3%B3n_libre_GNU WikiDex] ([https://www.wikidex.net/index.php?title=WikiDex:Licencia_de_documentaci%C3%B3n_libre_GNU&action=history history]), which in turn translated it from [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licencia_de_documentaci%C3%B3n_libre_de_GNU Spanish Wikipedia] ([https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Licencia+de+documentaci%C3%B3n+libre+de+GNU&date-range-to=2009-07-14&tagfilter=&action=history history]), both from before the wikis switched from the GNU Free Documentation License to CC-BY-SA on June 19, 2009 and July 15, 2009, respectively. It is given for guidance purposes only and has no legal implications.