GFDL Freeness and Cover Texts
(I originally posted this to debian-user, as "GFDL Freeness Question")
I have some articles on the general topic of software quality at:
http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/
They are all under the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.1.
I would like these articles to be included in Linux distributions. But in light
of the recent controversy over the non-freeness of GFDL docs with invariant
sections, I would like your opinion on whether the way I apply the GFDL would
make Debian consider them non-free enough to refuse consideration. (This is
quite a different question from whether Debian would consider the articles worth
including because of their content.)
I don't have any invariant sections in any of them, but each of them specifies a
brief back cover text:
"This contains material from the Linux Quality Database at
http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk";.
Is that a problem?
Also, while I have your attention, I would also like to say that I would welcome
any translations of these articles to other languages. The Open Source
Development Lab has already translated the two kernel testing articles to Japanese.
Thanks for your help.
Mike
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