Henning Glawe <glaweh@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:58:52PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>> This really just isn't a problem that needs fixing. Once in a while, you get
>> confused or desperate people on d-legal trying to argue "we allow license
>> texts to be unmodifiable, so this invariant ode to my cat should be allowed,
>> too!", but you can't stop those stupid arguments by changing the DFSG. You
>> just end up replacing one dumb argument with another, equally dumb argument,
>> and complicate the guidelines in the process.
>
> just one thought: we have programs in main, where derived works are
> only allowed as original source+patches (TeX comes to my mind...)
> couldn't it be basically the same thing with GFDL documents? if
> there is an invariant section with an 'ode to my cat', why can't we
> add a section to the document telling the 'ode to my cat' is bloody
> stupid. this would be in some sense equivalent to a patch, only the
> interpreter is not the computer but the human brain (which is the
> target architecture for documentation anyways).
It's not equivalent. A patch /changes/ the original to give you
something new, whereas adding additional material merely /extends/;
it's not hard to see long-term maintenance problems with this. See
the debian-vote archives for more detail.
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