Re: Suggestion to maintainers of GFDL docs
* Mark Rafn (dagon@dagon.net) wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, iain d broadfoot wrote:
>
> > but that allows MSWord docs, since i can edit them with Abiword, OOo
> > etc...
> >
> > maybe request a plain text version alongside any other formats? or
> >
> > "must be editable with free software and must be saved in a Free format?"
>
> I'm not sure where this requirement is coming from. It goes quite a bit
> further than the GPL requires for software. "The source code for a work
> means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it"
it's not a requirement by any means, just a clarification of the
author's desires.
iain
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