Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:54:30PM -0800, Walter Landry wrote:
> The Word format specification is not available to the public.
Here's something I'm confused about: the Gimp's native file format, XCF,
has, as far as I can tell, no specification, being intended for use with
the Gimp only. All I could find, on searching, was assertions that it
wasn't specified, and what appears to be an aborted attempt at documenting
it in "xcf.txt".
Yet, the GFDL actually lists XCF as a transparent format. Huh? Does that
mean the GFDL has a "special" interpretation of the word "specification",
which includes reference implementations (which certainly are not
specifications; anyone who's implemented a file parser knows that)?
(At least this one's in the license itself, and not merely a statement
of intent from the FSF that we're supposed to assume everyone shares.)
--
Glenn Maynard
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