On 11104 March 1977, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >> On Mon, 2007-06-08 at 08:58 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >> > Can I get an explanation of why Debian considers a GFDL manual with >> > cover texts non-free? >> http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml> http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 > The position statement and the vote all conflate invariant sections > with cover texts and dedications as if exactly the same arguments > against invariant sections applied to a cover text like "a gnu > manual". Why are three words enough to make thousands upon thousands > of words nonfree? Because it is non-free. Compare with a source tarball, where one could say "But this is just one twenty-line file which is non-free, and the other 500000 lines are free. Why is this enough to make the rest non-free?". That just doesn't work. For the rest see Manojs links please. -- bye Joerg > But i don't think that we talk a lot, as far as i can see, you live in > the USA. Australia. Only minor details like timezone and hemisphere but pretty much the same. TZ is UTC+10
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