Re: A possible GFDL compromise

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Steve Dobson <steve.dobson@krasnegar.demon.co.uk> writes:

> But are you supporting the GFDL as a way of getting the message out?
> Or do you, like me, see it as a weapon that can be used to distribute
> propaganda?  While a document licensed under the GFDL may not contain
> any propaganda today, that does not mean that it will not tomorrow.

I see the GFDL as destructive and wrongheaded, an attempt to do
something reasonable by an entirely unreasonable method.

A reasonable method would be, say, to include it in the manual without
a special license "protection".  To put it in the motd, or the Emacs
startup message.  And so forth.