Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I don't think that section titles are a problem--it would not be > >hard to put them in a program. > > In a *binary executable* ?!?! That's what I'm talking about here. > > I am not sure if you are right; this might be impossible or it might > be easy. I have never thought about what this requirement means for a > binary executable, because the question is not important. I don't think > it needs to be possible to use text from manuals in a program. > A manual is free if you can publish modified versions as manuals.
And is a text editor free if you can only publish modified versions as text editors -- not as manuals or tetris games or news-readers or web browsers? > Many free documentation licenses won't permit use of the text in > GPL-covered free programs, and practically speaking, this means I > can't use them in any of the programs I might want to use them in. > Whether the manual's text could be used in a free software package > with a license that qualifies as free software, but is not one I'd > want to use, is just academic. Not to Debian it isn't academic: single license conflicts, such as BSD-with-advertising-clause with GNU GPL, happen all the time in the free software world. A *universal* license conflict, such as this, is not something I have ever seen for Free Software. -Brian
