Re: For those who care about the GR
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:52:01PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> I am, at this point, unclear whether I hold GFDL licensed
> works without invariant texts non-free as a matter of opinion, or of
> fact.
Fact 1: The GFDL include this:
"You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the
reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute."
Fact 2: The DFSG include this:
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in
a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the
program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic
research.
Fact 3:
There exist fields of endeavours that require mandatory encryption.
For example, if you work in security-sensitive field, you can be
required to use a hard-drive with built-in encryption. This technology
certainly control who can read the disk. In that case, you cannot copy a
GFDL licensed document to your computer for reading it.
Fact 4: the GFDL is incompatible with DFSG 6.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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