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Not inherently free, but inherently non-free?



I wonder if all documents licensed under the GNU Free Documentation
License[1] are inherently non-free with regards to the Debian Free
Software Guidelines[2].

I thought that if no invariant sections were used the document would
still be considered free.  However, if invariant sections were used
for anything other than the license, the document would become
non-free.  Since we don't require licenses to be altered I guess that
the same would apply to an invariant section, I guess.

There seems to be some confusion about whether the GNU FDL renders
every document non-free or only those that include invariant
sections.  The result is that... er... I am confused as well...

Could somebody enlighten me?

Links:
 1. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
 2. http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

Regards,

	Joey

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