On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:40:36PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > We need every method of informing them that we can get. > > Then why not go the Reiser[3] way and require that an advertisement > for the Free Software movement be printed out at every interactive > invocation of a GNU derived GPLed program? > > A long message at startup would be very inconvenient, simply for being > long, regardless of its meaning. A section of the same length in a > manual would not cause any such inconvenience. Nobody is "heavily > affected" by a few extra pages in a large manual. The GNU FDL's requirment of the inclusion of Invariant Sections is not waived when the material quoted from the manual, or the manual itself, is not large. -- G. Branden Robinson | One doesn't have a sense of humor. Debian GNU/Linux | It has you. branden@debian.org | -- Larry Gelbart http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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