Re: GFDL freedoms
On Thursday 14 April 2005 22:32, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:17:12PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Now imagine someone who's doing a study on available algorithms for
> > Fourier transforms, and wants to pick out parts of the text in the
> > invariant section to write his paper.
>
> It seems that he could do this with a simple footnote or end note
> referencing the document in question.
>
> You can do that with copyrighted text that gives you no rights at all. So
> I'm not sure why you couldn't also do it with text licensed under the GFDL.
Indeed. But this obviously then is no "free" work. Why should Debian want to
distribute that in main?
Would you consider a program free, whose license requires you to keep a 200k
block of unused random bytes with a specific checksum on your local disk to
use it?
MfG David
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