Re: Documentation Copyleft
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 13:46:12 +0100, J.H.M. Dassen quoted:
> Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
> manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, that the entire resulting
> derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical
> to this one.
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 05:13:20 -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 01:46:12PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> > This is what's used in a lot of GNU documentation; sweet, short, simple.
> [..]
>
> That's non-free... ;> Doesn't permit derived works other than
> translations.
I suspect Joseph is overstretching himself in trying to maintian his top
Debian poster bird position.
In any case, he just admitted on IRC he misread the license, so let's not
flame him too much :-)
Ray
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