On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:36:28PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > I pulled it out of my files and reread it; the FSF's side of the > agreement is a lot weaker than I remembered. The actual text is [...] > Not one word about redistribution of modifications. I don't think > I have a leg to stand on with regard to the manual I already wrote. > You can be sure I won't be assigning any future copyright interests > of mine to the FSF on those terms, though. > > On a more pragmatic note, if I really made a stink about this, what > would happen is cpp.texi would get rolled back to its state before > I revised it, and would continue to be distributed under the GFDL > with invariant sections etc intact; thus it would not get any Freer, > and would be much less useful to its intended readership. If you feel your trust has been betrayed, I think you should say so. Insisting that your text be removed from the CPP manual is not the only tactic at your disposal. -- 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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