Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL
On 3/19/06, Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> "Raul Miller" <moth.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If it's someone else's GPL'd C code, then in your hypothetical example,
> > he's supposed provide source to his students should they ask for it.
>
> That is my point. The Word document is the source. That is the
> format that he makes modifications in. This is not allowed by the GFDL.
First off, the GFDL does not have to be GPL compatible
to be DFSG free.
Second off, you've not convinced me that the GFDL never allows
the use of word format (I'll grant that such allowance would come
with caveats about as strong as those necessary for your
example).
> > > Don't be silly. I am talking about Microsoft Word.
> >
> > You should follow your own advice.
> >
> > Which version of Microsoft Word?
>
> I don't understand the point of your nit-picking here.
Then you might want to go read the previously quoted
material to which you were responding where you said
"I am talking about Microsoft Word."
However, to recap: I indicated that there are "Microsoft
Word" is not a single thing but a complicated collection
of interacting things -- statements about one facet of this
collection need not be true for other facets. Your response
to this was "Don't be silly. I am talking about Microsoft Word."
Implying, perhaps, that Microsoft Word was instead one
single opaque thing and that generalizations about any
one aspect of it must necessarily apply to all other aspects?
--
Raul
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