Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:50:46AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> > > > It is not inconvenient to distribute auctex_11.html together
>> > > > with the invariant sections.
>> > >
>> > > Of course it is - imagine that my documentation contains parts
>> > > from 10 documents, all under GFDL, all using lots of invariant
>> > > sections - that would be more than inconvenient.
>> >
>> > the DFSG does not require convenience. it requires freedom. lack of
>> > convenience DOES NOT equate to non-free.
>>
>> True; however, Frank said "it would be more than inconvenient", which
>> does not say he thinks that the main problem is lack of convenience
>> here.
>
> i guess english is not your native language. "more than inconvenient" is
> a colloquialism for "extremely bloody inconvenient" or worse. i.e. "more
> than" is another way of saying "very".

It's also not my native language, and indeed with "more than" I meant
"not only extremely bloody, but even something else" (i.e. non-free).

I don't know of a place to look such phrases up, sorry.  I phrased it
along "more than that", which for sure means "but there's something
else". 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)