Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

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Subject: Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?
From: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:36:14 +0100
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Joerg Wendland wrote:

>I was asked for my opinion, here it is. I feel the GFDL is "free enough"
>for my heart does not beat for the bureaucratic following of iron rules
>but for the sake of our users. And our users are not just the readers of
>GFDL-licensed documentation but also their authors, and they deserve
>freedom, too. This is why I made this very selection and this discussion
>ends here.

You said that the GFDL was DFSG free. It's not. It fails the DFSG on
multiple counts. Do you really believe tht the GFDL is DFSG free?
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org

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References:
- SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?
  - From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
- Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?
  - From: Joerg Wendland <joergland@debian.org>
- Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?
  - From: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
- Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?
  - From: Joerg Wendland <joergland@debian.org>

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