Re: GDB manual

2003-05-30 Thread Walter Landry
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, other people purporting to act on behalf of the FSF do. > > Did they really claim to be speaking for the FSF, or were they just > expressing support for the FSF? Anyone can do the latter, but we did > not ask anyone to speak for t

Re: The debate on Invariant sections (long)

2003-05-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 13:12, Richard Stallman wrote: > There is no difficulty at all here. This collection would be an > aggregate, and here's what the GFDL says about that: Thank you for the correction.

Re: The debate on Invariant sections (long)

2003-05-30 Thread Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller
Hi RMS, On Mittwoch 28 Mai 2003 00:40, Richard Stallman wrote: >>> A political essay is (typically) written by certain >>> persons to persuade the public of a certain position. >>> If it is modified, it does not do its job. So it makes >>> sense, socially, to say that these cannot be modified. >

Re: The debate on Invariant sections (long)

2003-05-30 Thread Richard Stallman
At least one situation comes to mind where it might happen: If I wanted to publish a collection of HOWTOs, e.g., from the LDP. If every one of them included front and back cover texts, that'd be a mountain. There is no difficulty at all here. This collection would be an aggregate, a

Re: GPL exception ???

2003-05-30 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I had the impression that the GPL already provides for forcing the > original copyright notice and author name to stay in the modified work, > but could not pinpoint the exact place of it. I'd point to clause 1 (which is referred to from clause 2): "keep

Re: GPL exception ???

2003-05-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > Derivative works must not remove the original author's copyright > notices, name or comments from source code and documentation. Doing > so will violate the license. > > I had the impression that the GPL already provides for forcing the > original c

GPL exception ???

2003-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, ... I came on a program that is distributed under the GPL with the addition of the following exception : Derivative works must not remove the original author's copyright notices, name or comments from source code and documentation. Doing so will violate the license. I had the impres