Re: Anton's amendment

[Yavor Doganov <yavor@doganov.org>]

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:44:59 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:45:42 +0200, Yavor Doganov <yavor@doganov.org>
> said:
> 
>> No, I think that Anton Zinoviev's amendment to the GR does *not* require
>> a change to the DFSG.
> 
>> But as it is clear that DDs interpret the DFSG differently, I agree that
>> a "clarification" to the DFSG #3 may be proposed at a later stage.  This
>> will require 3:1 majority, of course.
> 
>         This is a procedural nightmare. What happens if we do split
>  things and Anton's proposal asses, we issue a statement, and the DFSG
>  amendment fails? We'll have a contradiction between a position statement
>  and the DFSG, which is bad.

Why?  If Anton's proposal passes, there won't be a contradiction since
it is compliant with the present DFSG.  It is valid in both cases.
Your reading, I believe, is:

| Everything must be modifiable

Others think that

| Everything, which is reasonable to be modified, must be modifiable
Things that are unreasonable to be modified for me are license texts
and personal opinions (or rants), which can only be copied verbatim. 

It is a matter of interpretation.

There is contradiction if Anthony's (or Adeodato's) proposal passes.
Since Debian is tolerating and distributing non-free software, many
people will ask themselves how the Debian Project is questioning the
freeness of the GFDL, a license acknowledged as free in the community.
It is not a contradiction, it's a hypocrisy.

-- 
Yavor Doganov