{"id":71,"date":"2014-12-04T23:13:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T23:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/openedreader\/chapter\/open-content-licenses-gnu-free-documentation-license\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:33:22","slug":"open-content-licenses-gnu-free-documentation-license","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/openedreader\/chapter\/open-content-licenses-gnu-free-documentation-license\/","title":{"raw":"GNU Free Documentation License","rendered":"GNU Free Documentation License"},"content":{"raw":"Read the article at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html<\/a>\n\n<strong>Background<\/strong>\n\nThe Free Software Foundation\u2019s version of a copyleft license for software manuals and textbooks, although it specifies that the license is not restricted solely to software-related materials. 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