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Re: If DFSG apply to non-software, is GPL*L* incompatible with DFSG?



Le sam 28/02/2004 à 15:58, Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley a écrit :
> Last year, when the controversy over whether the DFSG applies to
> documentation (in particular GNU-FDL-ed documentation), I meant to
> mention to someone (but promptly forgot) that the license under which
> the text of the FSF's licenses (GPL, LGPL, FDL) are licensed is much
> stricter than even the FDL so cearly violates the DFSG (if they apply
> to it).
> 
> The GPL &c are allowed to be copied only in full without any
> modifications.
> 
> If the DFSG do apply to non-software -- has a descision been made on
> this? -- this would I think effectively stop Debian from distributing
> any GPLed work on a CD which conforms to the DFSG.

Oh dear.

Poor, poor horses. Even dead, they are never left alone.
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