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Re: The debate on Invariant sections (long)



Mark Rafn <dagon@dagon.net> writes:

> On Wed, 14 May 2003, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>> I don't agree.  Just take out the offending part.
>
> The GFDL does not allow us to take out the offending part - it contains 
> sections which are not allowed to be removed.

I think this is want he meant.

> If Emacs + it's documentation is considered to be a single entity which is 
> a derived work of both a GPL product and a GFDL product, it is 
> undistributable even in non-free.

Not to mention the rest of GNU software providing documentation.

> I personally consider them seperate works which we aggregate and 
> distribute together, but the FSF takes a pretty wide interpretation of 
> "linking", so I could be in the minority.
>
>> Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr> wrote:
>> >   That's insane.
>
> We may disagree with RMS on this, but it's not helpful to call him insane ;)

Not RMS. Removing Emacs from main.

-- 
Jérôme Marant

http://marant.org



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