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Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG



Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> writes:
> As formulated at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html, the four
> software freedoms can not be applied directly to works that are not
> programs and in particular they can not be applied directly to
> documentation.  "Run the program" and "study how the program works"
> are certainly not activities that can be applied to documentation.

And this is what really differs from DFSG as currently written. Debian
consideres _everything_ to be under the same guidelines and there
should be no difference between a program, a manual or a
specification. FSF does not agree with us on this, so it is not always
possible to say "FSF Free == DFSG Free".

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