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Re: Why I don't share Manojs fears.



Hi,
>>"Joseph" == Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@earthlink.net> writes:


 >> Actually, I am going to make a stand about our Hypocrisy;
 >> anything that you have said also applies to Licenses. You want to
 >> throw things like the FHS and others out of main, you have to throw
 >> out the DFSG, the social contract, and GPL etc out as well

 Joseph> I don't think they should be, any of them.  I don't think the
 Joseph> DFSG counts anyway since it's not a license.  Licenses are
 Joseph> not change-able for a reason.  That's IP issues, not free
 Joseph> software issues IMO.  A standards document should be allowed
 Joseph> to be unmodifyable, same with a license.

 Joseph> Am I making any sense?

	To me you are. And, I suppose, you would agree to creating a
 verbatim section, and putting all these unmodifiable documents in
 there? 

	manoj
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