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Re: suggestion: DFDG - Debian Free Documentation Guidelines [was: Discussion - non-free software removal]



On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:38:40PM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote:
> just to play devil's advocate, what's the difference between an
> invariant section and the normal language that says you can't modify the
> copyright section of all the files.  Yea, it's a bit nit picky, just
> wondering if people brought up that argument b4?

Yes; you might want to read about 6 months' worth of archived
debian-legal traffic starting in October 2001.

Here's a good starting point:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200110/threads.html

Keep going until about April 2002, where continued delays by the FSF in
publishing responses to their public draft of version 1.2 of the FDL
helped contribute to the death of the discussion.

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Debian GNU/Linux                   |          mark with chalk,
branden@debian.org                 |          cut with axe,
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