Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le sam 20/09/2003 à 23:27, Richard Stallman a écrit :
> > The DFSG is written as if the system consists entirely of programs and
> > contains nothing else.
>
> This is bullshit. Just read the DFSG, and you will see they can be
> applied to anything that we put on our CD's and FTP's. Writing specific
> guidelines for documentation or data would lead straightly to the same
> definition.
s/DFSG/Social Contract #5/ ;-) (ok the DFSG is part of the social
contract)
So if you take the document from the Gutenberg[1] project, is it
software for you ? and you have to apply the rule of DFSG for the
books of Steven Levy or Victor Hugo ? Would you modify the various
books ? A book is not software and this is not the same
definition. The freedom objectives are the same but they are
small differences.
[1] The vast majority of Gutenberg books are in public domain. So you
are allowed to make a lot of thing with the books.
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