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Re: is FDL DSFG compliant?



----- Original Message -----
From: "Santiago Vila" <sanvila@unex.es>
To: "Christian Surchi" <csurchi@debian.org>
Cc: <debian-legal@lists.debian.org>; <linuxfacile@packages.debian.org>;
<base-files@packages.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: is FDL DSFG compliant?


> >
> > We have at least a package (linuxfacile) in woody, under FDL (Free
> > Documentation License: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html).
> > Is that license DFSG free?
>
> DFSG is for Software (the "S" in DFSG), so it's not an easy question...
> I'll let the experts to answer that.
>
A headline/title is normally _not_ considered significiant for the
interpretation of a legal document. The DFSG themselves nowhere state that
they are only applicable for software, do they? And even if they do, what is
software?

Jens




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