Re: old and new GNU documentation licenses, and the some of the manuals to which they apply

To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: old and new GNU documentation licenses, and the some of the manuals to which they apply
From: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:47:05 +0200
Message-id: <20030909124705.GA6596@mails.so.argh.org>
Mail-followup-to: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org
In-reply-to: <8tSZxAEJcDD@kangaroo.faerber.muc.de>
References: <8tSXZh+3cDD@3247.org> <2700.1063039790@mixed> <8tSZxAEJcDD@kangaroo.faerber.muc.de>

* Claus Färber (claus@faerber.muc.de) [030909 14:43]:
> The same is basically true for HTML and XML documents. Can you have a  
> free web browser display non-free web pages? Should Galeon (or Konqueror  
> or ...) refuse to display the FSF's homepage because it is not GPL'd?

Even more: A web browser that has in it's license that it must not be
used to display non-free web sites would be non-free itself - DFSG #5,6.

Cheers,
Andi
-- 
   http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/
   PGP 1024/89FB5CE5  DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F  3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Reply to:

References:
- Re: old and new GNU documentation licenses, and the some of the manuals to which they apply
  - From: claus@xn--frber-gra.muc.de (Claus Färber)
- Re: old and new GNU documentation licenses, and the some of the manuals to which they apply
  - From: Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>
- Re: old and new GNU documentation licenses, and the some of the manuals to which they apply
  - From: claus@xn--frber-gra.muc.de (Claus Färber)

Prev by Date: Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal
Next by Date: Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal
Previous by thread: Re: old and new GNU documentation licenses, and the some of the manuals to which they apply
Next by thread: Re: old and new GNU documentation licenses, and the some of the manuals to which they apply
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread