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Re: documentation eq software ?



* Mathieu Roy (yeupou@gnu.org) [030830 16:05]:
> Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> a tapoté :

>> [example of possibility of political statements in software]
> > +      fputs (_("Note: The author of this software believes that the
> > invasion of Iraq was an act fully justified by international law\n"),

> > ? I've seen several pieces of software which made political statements.
> > The author obviously felt that doing so was important. Should the GPL
> > protect those opinions?

> The GPL is about software. And the main purpose of a software is not
> to make a political stand.

And the purpose of manuals is to make them?


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Andi
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