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Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)



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"Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org> writes:

> * Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es> [060112 15:09]:
>>   (Or in other words: perhaps it's only me, okay, but I can't help, at
>>   all, feel that ripping out of main documentation that their authors
>>   intended to be free, and made their best-effort to achieve that, like
>>   a form of betrayal.
>
> It is a form of betrayal. And this betrayal is on out side. But the
> betrayal is not that we exclude things out of main someone failed to
> make free software (we make this with programs most of the time, too),
> but the betrayal is that we did not inform them before so they could
> avoid that pitfalls.
> We (in the form of Debian) knew those problems since short after the GFDL
> came first up, we did nothing to inform people early due to false hope to 
> get it solved in quiscence easier than confronting.

We did do something about it.  About a year before the release of
Sarge, I discussed the GFDL issues with all my upstreams using GFDL
manuals including Manoj's draft Position Statement, and I was hardly
the only one doing this.  The problems have been brought to public
attention several times since the GFDL came into being, so people
using the licence are likely to be at least peripherally aware of the
issues.

While it's true that we have tried to get it solved quietly, it's not
true to say that we collectively did nothing.


Regards,
Roger

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