Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? > > You have to be free to publish modified versions of the program as > tetris games and news-readers and web browsers, since those are > different programs, but a manual is a different kind of thing > entirely. It is to much to ask that it should be feasible to > conveniently publish a modified version of the program as a manual. > The GPL, for instance, does not permit this in a way that is good > for publication of books on paper.
The question is, importantly, *WHY* is this too much to ask?
