On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:08:18AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > If the point is obvious, my apologies, but: If sufficiently motivated > people are annoyed by the ongoing conversion of GNU documentation to GFDL, > they may at any time fork the final non-GFDL version and maintain > derivative works (updated manuals) to benefit Debian and others. Yes, though it should be kept in mind that the GPL-incompatibility problem remains. We *still* won't be able to drop hunks of these manuals into their corresponding programs as on-line documentation, unless the same text happens to already exist somewhere else under the GNU GPL. Thanks for reiterating the point though. It is worth repeating. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | "Bother," said Pooh, as he was branden@debian.org | assimilated by the Borg. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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