Re: documentation x executable code

[Peter Vandenabeele <peter.vandenabeele@mind.be>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:31:31AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:56:57AM +0100, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> > An interesting consequence of this proposal is that a Copy-Exact of
> > the GPL License could not longer go into main (as it is essentially 
> > one large invariant section. I quote from GPL:
> > "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
> > of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.")
> 
> This is false.  I suggest you read the rest of the thread to see why,
> or any of the other three or four hundred times people have tried to
> convince us that Free Software is hopeless and we should just give
> up by claiming that license documents can't go in main.

I am fairly new to this list, but I have followed this thread for
some time now.

I did not understand why a document with invariant sections cannot
be part of "Free/main" (in the Debian context) and the GPL license 
which states that it only allows verbatim copies can be.

I would appreciate to receive a pointer to an explanation.

Thanks for helping me on that,

Peter