On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:29:13PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Please visit > <URL:http://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml> > > Any comments, feedback, suggested wording, and proof reading > appreciated. Some comments: > Transparent and Opaque copies > [...] > Instead, the GFDL insists that you must somehow include a > machine-readable Transparent copy (i.e., not allow the opaque form to > be downloaded without the transparent form) or keep the transparent form > available for one year after the last distribution of the opaque form. From this little paragraph I can't really see the problem here. I think you should more emphasize that "available" means "[available at] a computer-network location from which the general network-using public has access to". Otherwise it is not obvious where this differ from the GPL requirement to make the source code available (on request) for three years after distributing a binary. (The next two paragraphs only talk about the sentence before the "or" so they don't help either.) > Invariant Sections > [...] > Being unable to use material from the document for a new document > whose primary topic is that of an Invariant Sections (because the > Invariant Section must be retained, and must be Secondary, but would > no longer be Secondary). This issue, where it can be very difficult > or impossible to repurpose chunks (eg copy regexp chapter), is a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > significant degradation of freedom. Perhaps it is my bad English but I don't understand what you mean with this expression. Do you mean "copy a chapter about regular expressions"? > There is some concern that the requirements to list the authors of > the modification on the title page and the history sectrions of the > GFDL covered work appear to prohibit anonymous modifications to a > document. (This may fail the Chinese Dissident Test). This paragraph is appended to the "Invariant Sections" part but seems not directly related to it. I see that it is to short to warrant an own section but just appending it to the wrong section feels not right. If only I had a better suggestion :/ Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> www: http://www.djpig.de/
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