On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 19:09, Richard Stallman wrote: > The goal of invariant sections, ever since the 80s when we first made > the GNU Manifesto an invariant section in the Emacs Manual, was to > make sure they could not be removed. Specifically, to make sure that > distributors of Emacs that also distribute non-free software could not > remove the statements of our philosophy, which they might think of > doing because those statements criticize their actions. > > Changing the GFDL to permit removal of these sections > would defeat the purpose. Richard, Several Debian developers have claimed that they are working with the FSF to make the GFDL DFSG-free and GPL-compatible, specifically: Anthony Towns wrote: > In short, some members of the FSF have asked for us to give them some > more time to come up with a GFDL that's DFSG-free before we go all > gung-ho about putting it in non-free and having bigger controversies. > Martin (wearing his DPL hat) talked to me about this at debcamp. and also, On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 09:10, Jérôme Marant wrote: > One thing we are sure about, is that, according to RMS, FSF is aware > of the GPL compatibility problem and is going to work this out, as soon > as it gets enough manpower. Since I see no way to reconcile GPL-compatibility and maintaining the invariance of invariant sections, should I believe this is not the case (and possibly never was)? -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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