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Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal



Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> a tapoté :

> Mathieu Roy <yeupou@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Now, I think that the question is not really what the DFSG
> > allows. Because it's pretty clear that the DSFG does not allow GFDLed
> > documentation with Invariant section.
> > 
> > The question is: do we think that tolerating this non-DFSG essays in
> > some GFDLed documentation is more harmful to Debian than removing
> > these GNU manuals?
> 
> Of course!
> Leaving them in main weakens our principles and opens the door to abuse.
> 
> Moving the manuals to non-free doesn't mean they are no longer
> available.

It should. non-free is not part of Debian, like the official logo.


> I personally don't care very much if the Emacs and Emacs Lisp
> manuals don't get rewritten as free software.  I'll get them from
> non-free and at least it's being honest about the freeness of the
> content.  Get over out, it's not a huge deal.

Ok. That's a point of view I can understand.




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Mathieu Roy
 
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