Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 02:16, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>   "The biggest deficiency in our free operating systems is not in the
>    software--it is the lack of good free manuals that we can include in
>    our systems.  Documentation is an essential part of any software
>    package; when an important free software package does not come with a
>    good free manual, that is a major gap.  We have many such gaps today.
>
>   "Free documentation, like free software, is a matter of freedom, not
>    price.  The criterion for a free manual is pretty much the same as for
>    free software: it is a matter of giving all users certain freedoms.
>    Redistribution (including commercial sale) must be permitted, on-line
>    and on paper, so that the manual can accompany every copy of the
>    program.
>
>   "Permission for modification is crucial too."
>
>   - Richard Stallman, 1998

Fantastic, GFDL doesn't even match his own words...

Mike

PS: BTW, he said free documentation was important, not that non-free 
documentation was evil ;)