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Re: documentation x executable code



On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:36:02PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
[snip]

> "wannabe-Holier-Than-Stallman zealots" is not a rebuttal, it's merely a
> succinct description of the anti-GFDL crowd.

Not agreeing with you does not necessarily make people zealots.  Have
you ever considered that you're a zealot too?  a GFDL zealot...

> invariant sections can be modified by patch.  the DFSG allows that
> restriction.  QED.

So for instance, you'd have nothing against a license that only allowed
"fixing" typos in a program along these lines:

--- helloworld.c.old    2005-01-05 10:44:53 +0200
+++ helloworld.c        2005-01-05 10:45:14 +0200
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 int main(void)
 {
        printf("Hello Wolrd\n");
+       printf("Hello World\n");

        return 0;
 }

Because that's the only kind of "modification by patch" that the GFDL
allows for.


Regards: David Weinehall
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