Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:03:24PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > What would you think about requesting the FSF to give Debian a copy of > > the manual with no such license restriction, > > The only way the FSF can "give Debian a copy of the manual" in any > meaningful sense would be to have a Debian-specific license, which is > forbidden by DFSG 8.
I don't mean a Debian-specific license. I mean RMS giving the Debian project a copy of the manual, with political sections, but without marking them as invariant, under the understand that Debian would not remove the invariant sections. > If the FSF gives Debian an exclusive license to versions of GNU Manuals > without invariant sections on the understanding that Debian distributes > only the regular version, I don't see how this changes the situation one > bit. I'm not suggesting an exclusive license.
