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Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal



bts@alum.mit.edu (Brian T. Sniffen) writes:

>> The GFDL allows you to make any changes you like in the technical
>> substance of the manual, just as the TeX license allows you to make
>> any changes you like in the technical substance of TeX.
>
> This is not true.  There is no way for me to create a work of free
> software which is a derivative work of the Emacs Manual.

If it's software, it can easily extract the relevant parts of the
manual while it's running.  Think of Emacs and its Info viewer.



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