Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:06:49PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * 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?!
I would feel bad about that too, and I'd say that. But my next move
would be to explain _why_ the GFDL is not free, rather than to laugh at
them for thinking it is free.
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