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Re: {SPAM} Re: Anton's amendment



Em Qui, 2006-02-02 às 01:09 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa escreveu:
> Yavor Doganov <yavor@doganov.org> writes:
> > As explained on http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto.html, the
> > Invariant sections serve a special purpose, which is the case of the
> > GNU Manifesto.  Many users, including myself, consider it a more
> > important part than the GNU Emacs Manual itself.  How removing the
> > document, that inspired thousands to join the efforts, will make
> > Debian more free, I cannot tell...
> So, if I were to write a program, which at startup displays the
> entiretity of the GNU Manifesto, and wrote a license, which would be
> GPL with the addition that the startup display may not be modified,
> only amended, you would consider this program a DFSG program and it
> could go into main?

IMHO, it's non-free. It's completely reasonable to want to remove the
startup display at all...

daniel



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