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Re: Starting to talk



Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Many people, including the author of the DFSG, have stated that they
> believe that the DFSG was intended to apply to documentation as well.
> The number of people arguing that documentation should not fall under
> the standards of freedom set out by the DFSG has been quite small, and
> none of these people have yet produced a useful set of freedoms that
> should apply to documentation (with the exception of RMS, I guess)

RMS has not either, at least, not in a level of detail with
specificity like the DFSG.

In my opinion, this is the most serious problem.  If the DFSG as we
interpret them are not the right set of standards for free
documentation, then what are?

Thomas



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