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Re: GNU FDL 1.2 draft comment summary posted, and RFD



On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:32:59PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> However, an Invariant section, even if severable, still has DFSG
> problems.
> 
> Copyright notices, license text, and something akin to the FDL 1.2
> draft's "endorsements" are about as far as I'm willing to go.

To spell this out a little more clearly:

I'm not comfortable with calling this license the "Debian Free Content
License" -- or the "Debian" anything, for that matter -- if the license
can be exercised in such a way that the work isn't DFSG-free.

To do so would feel hypocritical to me.  If we're going to put our name
on it, we need to not be turning around and saying "well, yeah, it's our
license, but we STILL won't let you into main with it".  That's just
going to aggravate people even more than they already are.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |
Debian GNU/Linux                   |       Extra territorium jus dicenti
branden@debian.org                 |       impune non paretur.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |

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