Re: PROPOSED: interpretive guidelines regarding DFSG 3, modifiability, and invariant text
- To: branden@debian.org
- Cc: henning@makholm.net, debian-legal@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: PROPOSED: interpretive guidelines regarding DFSG 3, modifiability, and invariant text
- From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
- Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 03:24:00 -0700 (MST)
- Message-id: <[🔎] 200112011024.fB1AO0o18291@aztec.santafe.edu>
- Reply-to: rms@gnu.org
- In-reply-to: <20011130132226.A30821@deadbeast.net> (message from Branden Robinson on Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:22:26 -0500)
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I think Henning was referring to the case where one wants to use small
portions of a GNU Manual verbatim.
This is not a very serious issue, since it isn't hard to rewrite a
small amount of text. You can also refer to it with a hypertext link
instead of copying it.
I don't think there is a real problem here. It may bother your
sensibilities because of the opinions that you start with, but practically
speaking it is easy to cope with.
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