* Anthony Towns [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:45:19 +1000]:
> What documents would this effort actually let us keep, anyway? All the
> FSF stuff for glibc, gcc, make and so on includes invariant sections
> anyway, no?
Right, FSF stuff goes away. OTOH, I feel utterly ashamed each time I
imagine the possibility of the following conversation taking place:
«Hey, fellow free software developer, thanks for writing such a cool
program and releasing it under the GPL! I also see that you wrote
excellent manual for it, nice! Uhm, I see it's licensed under
the GFDL, why? Oh I see, these FSF folks that created the GPL told you
that the GFDL is a reasonable license for documentation, and you
fscking trusted them?! Bad move, guy. No unmodifiable sections you
say? Bah, you know we in Debian care more about legalese than about
being fair to the rest of the community. Errr, are you suggesting that
we dishonor our High Levels Of License And Copyright Compliance and
allow invariant-less in main? NO WAY MAN, GO AWAY. You can't relicense
because lots of people contributed to it, some of whom have passed
away? NOT MY PROBLEM. You'll be recommending Ubuntu instead of Debian
from now on? HAH!, AS IF I CARE.»
(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. Apologies if this offends somebody, but it's the
way I feel it, and can't do anything about it.)
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Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org
A lie can go round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
-- Terry Pratchett
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