[ Mailing list admins, please see the end of this message. ] On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:11:16AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 07:16:51PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > * GAWK: The GNU Awk User's Guide; Edition 2, "for the 3.0.3 (or later) > > version of the GNU implementation of AWK." > > > > This manual's new license is: > > > > Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document > > under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or > > any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the > > Invariant Sections being "GNU General Public License", the Front-Cover > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > People who like to bitch about the GPL being non-free take note: *this* > time it really is. Contemplate the differences.
I concur. This use of the GNU General Public License violates my proposed interpretive guideline for DFSG 3[1]. It also, to my understanding, violates Bruce Perens's intentions regarding the meaning of the DFSG[2]. He said "My feeling is that invariant sections are OK for attribution and the copyright statement and license ONLY, and not for other aspects of the document." I interpret Bruce to mean the attributions, copyright statements and licenses that actually applies to the work in question, not various and sundry other such things that don't. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200112/msg00245.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200308/msg00690.html [ UH OH. I just noticed that the de-spamification of the mailing list archives has caused some URLs from Google to point to the wrong messages. IMO this is deeply unfortunate. :( For example, search Google for "final interpretive guideline DFSG" and note that the top link result doesn't go to that message, but rather to a different one. This deeply sucks. It will take ages for Google to correct its view of our entire mailing list archives. :( :( :( ] -- G. Branden Robinson | To Republicans, limited government Debian GNU/Linux | means not assisting people they [EMAIL PROTECTED] | would sooner see shoveled into mass http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | graves. -- Kenneth R. Kahn
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