Re: Debian Free Documentation Guidelines was: License of old GNU Emacsmanual

2005-01-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Florian Weimer dijo [Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:21:00PM +0100]: > I'd prefer a slightly different set of freedoms, but this goal is > impractical. For instance, I believe that the GNU GPL is not a free > documentation license because it unnecessarily complicates the > distribution of printed copies,

Re: Debian Free Documentation Guidelines was: License of old GNU Emacsmanual

2005-01-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Gunnar Wolf: > Well... Remember the GPL does not require you to provide the sources > _together_ with the binary/printout/whatever - It requires you to > provide means to get the sources. So if you print a book that [...] > has the URL for the place you can refer to in order to get the > source,