On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:41:32PM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote: > How about requiring that a URL from which the source of the document is > available be included in printed forms of the document? I want to cast the terms more broadly than that, since technology changes and while it looks like the Web will be with us for a good long time, we need to draft our license for the ages in the event that the Mickey Mouse^W^WSonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act is not repealed in the U.S. 95 years is a long, long time. > And some kind of specification to prevent "oh, this is the latest version > of the document; we cut it down from being a book to just being a reference > card..." having distributed the book. Uh, the DFCL will give people permission to excise as much material content as they want (as opposed to license content -- the copyright notice(s), license(s), and endorsement(s)). If you can't yank out what you don't want, it's not Free. See DFSG 3. Or you do you mean that we want to prevent someone passing out paper copies of the GNU Emacs Manual, but only making the source to the Quick Reference Card available on the Web? As long as we retain GPL-style "corresponding source code" language, that type of misbehavior will be prohibited. -- G. Branden Robinson | You don't just decide to break Debian GNU/Linux | Kubrick's code of silence and then branden@debian.org | get drawn away from it to a http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | discussion about cough medicine.
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