Le Dim 12 Février 2006 02:22, Osamu Aoki a écrit : > Hi, > > I second Adeodato Simó's proposal but at the same time I consider it > still leaves some spaces for the absolutism interpretation which > tends to plague Debian. I consider we should have reasonable space > for "judgment" for many things in life. > > Let's consider a documentation written in the SGML and released under > GFDL in which invariant section is claimed but its invariant section > is in commented-out section which contain nothing but list of author > name and their contact e-mail address. This is a really possible > case since people consider putting their e-mail addresses in > printable contents tends to cause headache with spams. > > GFDL blah, blah,... > Invariant section being following comment section in SGML > <!-- > chapter 1: author1_name [EMAIL PROTECTED] > chapter 2: author2_name [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --> > > Under literal rule of Adeodato Simó's proposal, above GFDL > documentation can not be in "main" since author forgot to place > removal rule for the content. I consider GFDL documentation with such > non-significant contents should receive the same treatment as the > invariant-less GFDL documentation. Other possible GFDL invariant > section which, I consider, should be permitted is an advertisement > clause by the author or publisher. I see no difference from 4 clause > BSD license. > > Thus, let me propose an amendment to Adeodato Simó's proposal: > > s/include no invariant sections/don't include any significant > contents to prevent our Freedom in invariant sections/ and matching > changes to the text. > > So here is my proposal in full text: > -----------------------------------8<-------------------------------- >--- > > Debian and the GNU Free Documentation License > ============================================= > > This is the position of the Debian Project about the GNU Free > Documentation License as published by the Free Software Foundation: > > 1. We consider that the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 > conflicts with traditional requirements for free software, since > it allows for non-removable, non-modifiable parts to be present in > documents licensed under it. Such parts are commonly referred to as > "invariant sections", and are described in Section 4 of the GFDL. > > As modifiability is a fundamental requirement of the Debian Free > Software Guidelines, this restriction is not acceptable for us, > and we cannot accept in our distribution works that include such > unmodifiable content. > > 2. At the same time, we also consider that works licensed under the > GNU Free Documentation License that don't include any > significant contents to prevent our Freedom in invariant sections do > fully meet the requirements of the Debian Free Software Guidelines. > > This means that works that don't include any significant > contents to prevent our Freedom in Invariant Sections, Cover Texts, > Acknowledgements, and Dedications (or that do, but permission to > remove them is explicitly granted), are suitable for the main > component of our distribution. > > 3. Despite the above, GFDL'd documentation is still not free of > trouble, even for works with no invariant sections: as an > example, it is incompatible with the major free software licenses, > which means that GFDL'd text can't be incorporated into free > programs. > > For this reason, we encourage documentation authors to license > their works (or dual-license, together with the GFDL) under the > same terms as the software they refer to, or any of the > traditional free software licenses like the the GPL or the BSD > license.
my understanding of this is that it's a minor problem, that upstreams are likely to solve easily. I hope dato won't accept that as a amendment of his proposal, because I think it changes it spirit a lot, and I won't second it. There is no need to draw a blurry line, for problems that a maintainer and upstream are really likely to solve in peace. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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