Gentlemen, At <http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/fdl.html>, the following text can be found: "On 7 February 2002, the FSF released a draft of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 for comment. The comment period lasts for three weeks, until 1 March 2002. If you have comments on this draft, please direct them to <fdl-comments@fsf.org> by 1 March 2002. "The FSF always seeks input from the community at large before adopting a new version of our Free licenses. We consider all feedback carefully; however we may not be able to respond to each comment individually. At the end of the comment period, we will post a summary of the most common comments." The comment period concluded a month ago, and still there is no sign of any public posting of comments received by the FSF, or any summary thereof. I think this lag stretches the meaning of "at the end of the comment period". Several Debian Developers participated in your comment process and we are extremely interested in what perspectives may have been raised by other parties. Speaking for myself, I would be perfectly content with a posting of the raw comments. I understand that summarizing can be difficult, especially if the volume of feedback was high and the points of view disparate. I do not feel that the FSF would be shirking its responsibilities if it were to post the original text of the comments it received, rather than attempting to summarize, especially at this late date. Thank you for your attention, and for your encouragement of community participation when making strategic decisions about future versions of the licenses you endorse. -- G. Branden Robinson | The greatest productive force is Debian GNU/Linux | human selfishness. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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