On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 16:58, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 08:31:56PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Martin Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > And to those who would say: "There's no difference between software and > > > documentation" I would reply -- sorry, but you really know nothing about > > > writing; specifically, _why_ writers write. > > > > Documentation *must* change to adapt to software, if the software can > > change. > > > > *When* documentation applies to software. Gosh, has nobody thought of Debian > distributing documentation that does _not_ apply to documentation [sic, I > assume software is meant]? Sample: > > - the Project gutenberg texts (not that their license is currently free)
Their license is moot in sane countries -- the texts are in the public domain. Er, modulo the small percentage of life+50 texts. And modulo Australia, which seems to have rejected Feist, although the case is on appeal to the Supreme Court there. > - the documentation that makes up an encyclopedia (if any such thing would be > at some time available for Debian to use) Wikipedia is available now under the GFDL. Encylopedias too must change -- an article on the country about East Germany must mention its current nonexistence. -- -Dave Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668 "Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave." - Walt Disney
