On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:48:55AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > So I don't think that the mere presence of non-DFSG-free > documentation in main demonstrates that this is a reinterpretation; it > would be much more compelling evidence if there were records showing > that the licenses of this documentation had been examined, their DFSG > incompatibilities recognized, and the packages kept in main in spite of > this.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1998/debian-devel-199811/msg02368.html ] Certain kinds of documentation or other non-software works may have ] further restrictions. ... ] (b) A document which states an opinion, as an opinion, need not be ] modifiable. Ian's proposal was rejected as being too formal, but was widely seen and discussed. At the time though, this particular point was accepted without argument, afaics and afaicr. > Instead, what we have is the original author of the DFSG stating > he intended documentation to be covered by the DFSG, I find that a bit hard to believe, even with Bruce's assertion. All the GNU docs have always been non-DFSG-free [0], eg, and imagining that everyone in Debian just happened not to notice seems quite a stretch to me. > and various other people saying it was never really discussed. Not everything that's obvious gets discussed, even on Debian lists. Cheers, aj [0] gcc's manual as of v2.8.1, March 1998, says: Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that the sections entitled ``GNU General Public License,'' ``Funding for Free Software,'' and ``Protect Your Freedom---Fight `Look And Feel'@w{}'' are included exactly as in the original, and provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we could. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004
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