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Re: Question about GFDL licensed works



Le dimanche 12 février 2006 à 09:22 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
>         Am I in violation of the License merely by unpacking make or
>  by doing an "tla get" on my machine? If I am, why is this free -- I
>  can't even unpack the sources " with no Invariant Sections, with no
>  Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts" on my SELinux
>  running Linux machine without breaking the law.
> 
>         If people who sponsored the second amendment can explain to me
>  why something that prevents me from using SELinux when all I am doing
>  is unpack and copy make sources is deemed free, I would be, err,
>  grateful.

Don't be so stubborn. This could be easily worked around by making GFDL
works depend on a package containing a rootkit. This way, their
installation would always comply with the license.
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