Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr> writes:

> Prior to GFDL, GNU Manuals used to have the same kinds of restrictions
> like invariant sections but noone has ever battled for moving them
> to non-free.  Then came GFDL and people suddenly decided to change
> the "de facto" rules.  This is the kind of consistency I'm talking
> about (whether invariant sections should be allowed or not). 

Debian was mostly unaware of the existence of these invariant
sections, and the problem had not been greatly discussed.

I was aware of it, but at the time I still believed that the GFDL
passed the DFSG.