Re: Proposed statement wrt GNU FDL
On 24 Apr 2003, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > Given the GNU Projects influence on Debian, shouldn't the GNU Manifesto
> > be included in the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution anyway?
>
> I propose expanding this question to:
>
> Why does Debian want to remove (say) the GNU Manifesto from the
> manuals? Do you want to suppress Stallman's views and just benefit
> from the software he created?
[Answer snipped]
<fx: resounding applause>
For what it's worth, I think this should go in pretty much unaltered (except
for a typo fix: "Changes to the software they get *from* us", line 8, para
2). It treads the line between "rah, rah, we love Stallman" and "Stallman
sucks" quite well.
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