Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net>

> "You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading
> or further copying of the copies you make or distribute" has been
> mis-read. I don't think there is any way the Project would consider "you
> must make all your files a+r, etc." a free license. I propose that the
> Project is telling us that something along the following is the true
> reading:
>
>     "You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the
>     reading or further copying [by the intended recipient] of [all] the
>     copies you make or distribute [to him]"

But how can we explain away "make or"?

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