On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:06:49PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Anthony Towns [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:45:19 +1000]: > > > What documents would this effort actually let us keep, anyway? All the > > FSF stuff for glibc, gcc, make and so on includes invariant sections > > anyway, no? > > Right, FSF stuff goes away. OTOH, I feel utterly ashamed each time I > imagine the possibility of the following conversation taking place: > «Hey, fellow free software developer, thanks for writing such a cool > program and releasing it under the GPL! I also see that you wrote > excellent manual for it, nice! Uhm, I see it's licensed under > the GFDL, why? Oh I see, these FSF folks that created the GPL told you > that the GFDL is a reasonable license for documentation, and you > fscking trusted them?!
I would feel bad about that too, and I'd say that. But my next move would be to explain _why_ the GFDL is not free, rather than to laugh at them for thinking it is free. -- .../ -/ ---/ .--./ / .--/ .-/ .../ -/ ../ -./ --./ / -.--/ ---/ ..-/ .-./ / -/ ../ --/ ./ / .--/ ../ -/ ..../ / -../ ./ -.-./ ---/ -../ ../ -./ --./ / --/ -.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ / --/ ---/ .-./ .../ ./ / ../ .../ / ---/ ..-/ -/ -../ .-/ -/ ./ -../ / -/ ./ -.-./ ..../ -./ ---/ .-../ ---/ --./ -.--/ / .-/ -./ -.--/ .--/ .-/ -.--/ .-.-.-/ / ...-.-/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
