Re: GFDL question

[amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk (Andrew M.A. Cater)]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:30:04AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Jacobo Tarrio <jtarrio@trasno.net> wrote:
> 
> > El martes, 14 de marzo de 2006 a las 08:27:25 +0100, Norbert Preining escribía:
> >
> >> Ok, there are no invariant sections, but there is (a short) front and
> >> back cover text.
> >> How do we proceed with these documents?
> >
> >  From the text of the GR itself:
> >
> > This means that works that don't include any Invariant Sections, Cover
> > Texts, Acknowledgements, and Dedications (or that do, but permission to
> > remove them is explicitly granted), are suitable for the main component of
> > our distribution.
> >
> >  So it is still not distributable.
> 
> ... in main.
> 
The Debian distribution _is_ main (and only main). Contrib and non-free 
are not Debian per se and are provided only as a convenience to our users 
(and a puzzlement to everyone else who wonders why Debian is so picky :) )


> The reason is clear, and front cover texts are even a more severe
> problem than invariant sections:  You cannot include the text anywhere
> else except in that particular document, not in the sources, not in an
> other GFDL'ed document, solely in something that still has the same name
> as the original document.
> 
Ack.

Andy