On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:50:30PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > So there's now an option in the license of texinfo docs that would allow > their copyright holders to spread vile anti-man(7) propaganda as part of > the docs and force everyone else to do so too. That's a problematic option, > but given that nobody's actually doing any such thing, is it problematic > enough to kick out the whole thing? I really am not convinced. > > (Ignoring the DRM issue for the sake of the analogy.) It took months of careful analysis of the consequences for -legal to become convinced that the GFDL was no good. The issues that you are ignoring played a not-insignificant part in that. Don't expect to be convinced by mild examples like the one you describe; they are fairly minor symptoms, not descriptions of the problem. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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