Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > As evidence that the FSF's attempt to disseminate their philosophy by > piggybacking it on technical manuals using the GFDL is flawed, I present > the fact that none of the people that the FSF's views seem to have > reached via this vector are capable of reasoning clearly about the > difference between stuff Debian wants to distribute (manuals) and stuff > Debian doesn't want to distribute (sociology books).
When you distribute the DFSG, you distribute also your philosophy. Are you ashamed of it? > > Finally, in manual, you can have a part which is really "a manual" > > specific part, which should be free. But you can have also a part > > that express a political stand, for example, and this part should > > not be modified, because it would be a lack of respect for the > > believes of the manual author. This part should be invariant. > > Yes, and our goal is to always respect authors: by not distributing > works that they don't wish to make available under the terms of the > DFSG. Including the GPL and the DFSG? Because the DFSG is not DFSG compliant. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english