* Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060112 15:09]: > (Or in other words: perhaps it's only me, okay, but I can't help, at > all, feel that ripping out of main documentation that their authors > intended to be free, and made their best-effort to achieve that, like > a form of betrayal.
It is a form of betrayal. And this betrayal is on out side. But the betrayal is not that we exclude things out of main someone failed to make free software (we make this with programs most of the time, too), but the betrayal is that we did not inform them before so they could avoid that pitfalls. We (in the form of Debian) knew those problems since short after the GFDL came first up, we did nothing to inform people early due to false hope to get it solved in quiscence easier than confronting. We failed to take the steps early due to our inability to release in a timely manner even without removing/rewriting/relicesing things that slipped in. And in all this time people were trapped into this, partially even with invariant sections or even cover texts, causing real world problems for many. But should we really try to bury that betrayal by betraying our users and our priciples, letting stuff in that we promised not too. Hiding problems our users (and we ourself) will be faced with in the future? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]