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Re: migrating away from the FDL



Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> a tapoté :

> Brian Calson said:
>  >I realize (and this is a gross
>  >generalization; please pardon me) that people that have stronger
> ties >to the FSF and GNU are more likely to feel that the GFDL is free
> than >those that have stronger ties to Debian.
> 
> This may be true overall, but my sense is that among GCC developers,
> most believe that the GFDL is not free, at least if it includes
> Invariant Sections (which the GCC manual does).

And are the gcc developers authors of this manual. If so, it's only up
to them.


> except that the GNU project *doesn't*
> promise that it will remain "100% free software"

Are you kidding?

The GNU project promises that every software will be free software and
every documentation will be free documentation, both freedom as
defined by the FSF.




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