On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:39:53AM -0800, Walter Landry wrote: > Perhaps I'm being a spoilsport, but I feel that the GFDL is just > fatally flawed. It tries to enumerate transparent and opaque formats, > when transparency and opaqueness are really context dependent. It has > all of the crap with Cover texts, preserving network locations, > Invariant sections, etc. I feel that effort would be better spent on > making a good license, rather than fixing up the broken one. > Otherwise Debian is just legitimizing the GFDL. It may be a necessary step, though, if we want to retain *any* GNU manuals in Debian main, even the ones that have no Cover Texts or Invariant Sections. -- 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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