Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:02:47PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote:
> While I don't regard the DFSG as already applying to
> documentation, the spirit of it is naturally extended to cover
> documentation. I would suggest that the GFDL is a reasonable
> license to use for free documentation --- free as in 'free
> to use and modify', but also free as in 'free speech'.
If the GFDL were a "free to use and modify" license, then we would not
be having this discussion. The problem is that the GFDL specifies
parts that we are _not_ free to modify, or even to delete.
> Several people said that they didn't want Debian
> documentation to be full of political rants. They would
> like to reserve the right to delete the parts they don't
> like from the manuals they package. But what is this but
> censorship? And how is censorship compatible with liberty?
What you're advocating is the evil twin of censorship, namely forced speech.
Richard Braakman
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