Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The reason I have said that a few times is that I have seen various
> messages here that don't seem to recognize that what the GFDL says is
> not a Debian decision. You can suggest changes but cannot demand
> changes. I'm not likely to accept sugges
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But the issue here is the question of how Debian should decide
> interpret its standards--whether they should be interpreted so
> strictly as to reject the GFDL, and also the GPL if it hadn't been
> "grandfathered."
Let me point out that just as Debi
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If they were small bits, that too would be fair use. You can use the
> manual in its entirety, and have Emacs display parts of the manual.
> That is the best approach technically if you are using a substantial
> part. Either way, there is no problem
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This isn't inconsistent--consistency does not make sense here. We all
> accept various inconveniences to achieve our ends, while rejecting
> others as not worth while. And each decision depends on the magnitude
> of the costs and benefits. To choos
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
This is an argument for in
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This problem is unfortunate, but no worse in the case of two ways of
> using the GFDL than with a pair of two different free software
> licenses.
But no pair of licenses is claiming to create a shared commons.
Heretofore, the FSF has been claiming to
In order to just remove it, technically speaking they needed
permission from EVERY SINGLE CONTRIBUTOR,
That's the same as the situation for any change between licenses. For
instance, if Apache wanted to relicense under the GPL, they would need
permission from EVERY SINGLE CONTRIBUTOR. Th
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