On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:53:58PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I'm cognizant of the work that has gone into it. I'm just not convinced > that it is as militantly defensive of the user's right to share > documentation as GNU GPL is for software. Interestingly, while we (the list) might mostly subjectively agree on what is abuse of the FDL on a case-by-case basis, the hard part is finding a way to put into an quantitative policy. Branden has the solution of limiting to size/percentage, which could certainly curtail some abuse. The simplicity might just make this the best way to go. Would it be a thought to distinguish between the different types of documentation? Should a man page (designed to be strictly technical/reference) be any different than files in the doc directory? Could invariants be allowed more freely if policy dictated that anything more than a paragraph or so be kept in a separate file? -drew -- M. Drew Streib <dtype@dtype.org>, Free Standards Group (freestandards.org) co-founder, SourceForge.net | core team, freedb | sysadmin, Linux Intl. creator, keyanalyze report | maintnr, *.us.pgp.net | other, see freedom/law
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