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Re: Not inherently free, but inherently non-free?



On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:10 -0400, Walter Landry wrote:
> Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> wrote:
> > There seems to be some confusion about whether the GNU FDL renders
> > every document non-free or only those that include invariant
> > sections.  The result is that... er... I am confused as well...
> > 
> > Could somebody enlighten me?
> 
> When the GFDL was originally inspected, the conclusion was that the
> GFDL was free as long as there were no invariant sections (and maybe
> some other sections).  Since then, other problems have been discovered
> that make all GFDL documents non-free.

I think most of them are summarised [1]here.

[1] http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.html

-- 
Pelle



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