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Re: "keep non-free" proposal



On 2004-01-30 21:19:30 +0000 Andrew M.A. Cater <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:

This document is intended to supplement the Debian Free Software Guidelines

I think you still need to amend the social contract to say which you use when, which is what has been asked for in the past.

Your document seems flawed. The GFDL does not permit you to make documentation sections (== the sections documenting the software) invariant. It does allow other parts of the document/work to be made invariant, but your guidelines do not seem to permit restriction of modification of non-documentation unless it is a standard, normative or historical document. A user manual probably is none of those.

In any case, I strongly disagree that the freedom to modify is not desirable for documents, even for standards documents, for reasons previously given on debian-legal.



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