On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:43:30PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 06:59:04PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:22:12AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > In spite of the Project Secretary's determination that this ballot > > > option requires a 3:1 supermajority because it modifies the DFSG, > > > given that I can't reconcile these claims that the GFDL always > > > complies with the DFSG with any (IMHO) reasonable reading of the > > > DFSG themselves, I am left without a suitable consistent > > > interpretation that I can apply in the exercise of my own duties. > > The interpretation being proposed seems to be "the DFSG allows certain > > restrictions on modifications, including the GPL's interactivity > > notification stuff and the GFDL's unmodifiable sections, with others > > potentially to be determined later". That seems reasonably easy to apply: > > deal with the existing ones as is, and assume there'll be another vote > > in future should any more come up. > The interpretation that I hold is the following: > The license must give us permissions to modify the work in > order to adapt it to various needs or to improve it, with no > substantive limits on the nature of these changes, but there > can be superficial requirements on how they are packaged. > However this interpretation is not part of my proposal. My proposal > invalidates some possible interpretations of DFSG but it doesn't state > which interpretation is the correct one. Which is for me a big problem, given that mine is one of those interpretations that's invalidated -- and, according to my reading, so is *yours*, since being unable to remove multiple pages of essays when borrowing a few paragraphs of text is a "substantive limit". I don't really have anything to replace it with; Anthony's interpretation is certainly pragmatic, but I find it fundamentally unsatisfying. I'd probably take it over an existential crisis, though. ;) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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