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Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files



* Thomas Bushnell BSG (tb@becket.net) [041118 02:40]:
> md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> > On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> wrote:

> > > In case you are wondering about bugs in case 1), please note that the
> > > GNU Free Documentation License is non-free in all its forms, according
> > > to the informal survey taken by Branden Robinson of the debian-legal
> > > denizens and by my understanding of the current consensus of
> > > debian-legal.

> > Since when this in itself has become a reason to remove something from
> > the distribution?

> When the new Social Contract changes go into effect (after the release
> of sarge), the DFSG will apply in full force to documentation, and
> there ain't nobody but nobody who thinks the GFDL passes the DFSG.

That still doesn't convert the opinion of most frequent writers on
debian-legal that the GFDL doesn't meet the SC into a decision to remove
all packages with GFDL from Debian.


Cheers,
Andi
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