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Re: GFDL freedoms



On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:55:12AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:37:02PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > You wrote 'specification', I wrote 'standards documents'.
> 
> I call things by their real names. A 'standards document' is a
> specification promoted by a self-proclaimed 'standards body'. The

Good for you. I note that you completely failed to address the rest of
my message. I assume that means you couldn't refute it.

> It's just more documentation. Free software needs *free* documentation.

Assuming I agree, what's that got to do with standards documents
(or specifications, if you like)? RFCs, for example, describe
protocols which is not software.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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