Re: Debian Free Documentation Guidelines was: License of old GNU Emacs manual
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> > 2. The freedom to study how the text is written, and adapt it to your
> > needs. Access to the text in the preferred form for modification is a
> > precondition for this. This includes the ability to modify the work to fit
> > in low memory situations, reference cards, PDA's, embedded devices, etc.
>
> This is could be more restrictive than the DFSG. We consider software
> free even though redistrubtion is only possible with license texts of
> substantial length.
We probably have to cater for license texts in documents as well. Good
call.
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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