Re: Unidentified subject!
On 2003-09-17 20:34:13 +0100 Brian W. Carver <brian@rurnt.com> wrote:
That's good to hear. Of course another related concern is
forward-looking. It
is a terrible waste of scare resources to have Debian create a
DFSG-free
manual every time a GFDL-licensed manual is produced for some new
piece of
software. [...]
Analogously, it may be considered a terrible waste of scarce resources
to produce free software manuals when proprietary manuals (such as
most of the ORA books) exist, but we do it anyway. Debian is
committed to providing its users with 100% free software. If authors
and publishers wish to produce manuals that are not free software,
then we can ask them to reconsider, but ultimately we cannot include
them. We do not necessarily have to have Debian produce manuals
itself. We need to encourage wider development of free software
manuals. Suggestions (probably off-list) on how to do that are
welcome.
The publisher of a significant number of manuals has apparently
decided to produce manuals that are not free software and seems not to
want to make them free software, and I don't see that how there will
be sufficient common ground to change that basic problem.
It's a shame, definitely, but it always was when others did it too.
--
MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know.
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