Re: Interpretation of the GR
Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:14:25AM -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote:
>> The GR says "For the sake of the DFSG, we're going to behave as if
>> our generous interpretation of the GFDL is the correct one."
>
> It's not a "generous interpretation", it's a plainly false one.
> According to your reading, the GR says "we're going to willfully
> violate the license".
For the purposes of this discussion, I'm agnostic on that issue (even
though I happen to agree), because it isn't really the point. The fact
is, according to the GR, the official debian position is that you (and
I) are wrong. Unless you're working on another GR to get that changed
there isn't much point in discussing it in the context of the DFSG. So
I call the interpretation mandated by the GR "generous" to distinguish
it from "literal", which it clearly isn't.
Of course, the question of whether we have the legal right to distribute
GFDL stuff given debian's infrastructure is another issue, and
ftp-masters would be ill-advised to follow the GR if there's serious
doubt on that subject.
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Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org>
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