On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 16:08, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> documentation != document. XSLT is cleary a program and s stylesheet
> should go under a code license. but a manual about programming in XSLT
> is definitely documentation and should be treated in a different way.
What about inline stylesheets? What about XSLFOs in an XML document?
> > IMO, an FDL-licensed document with invariant sections is non-free. As a
> > user of Debian, I'd like to know that they're not installed on my system
> > if I'm only using packages from main.
>
> IYO. IMHO they *are* free. i explain why: if i write a 300 pages book
> about something and 2 pages about my motivations, greetings to people
> that helped me, etc. i want you to fix the 300 pages of technical stuff
> but i don't see why you should the 'feelings' i put in that 2 pages.
> you're *free* to adapt the document to your liking and even add some
> comments (invariant) criticizing my own, but litterature (even technical
> one) is much different from code.
I agree. The needs of nontechnical writing are not the same as the needs
of technical writing. However, say I want to take a 10 page chapter out
of your book and, e.g., strip it down into a 4 page quick reference
guide. The FDL says I have to preserve your 2 pages of greetings and
thanks. I believe invariant sections (in the general sense) are a good
idea, and necessary for nontechnical writing. However, I believe
Invariant Sections (as in the FDL) impose restrictions that are
non-free.
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- Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net> - http://www.sacredchao.net
"What I did was justified because I had a policy of my own... It's
okay to be different, to not conform to society."
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