Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread MJ Ray
I suggest a few wording changes and additions to avoid some arguments against the statement and to make it a little clearer. I agree with earlier comments about adding the version number. Anthony Towns > Within the Debian community there has been a significant amount of concern > about the GNU F

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony Towns writes ("GR Proposal: GFDL statement"): > Bcc'ed to -project, -legal and -private; followups to -vote please. > > It's been six months since the social contract changes that forbid > non-free documentation went into effect [0], and we're still distributing > GFDLed stuff in unstable

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:37:32 +, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I suggest a few wording changes and additions to avoid some > arguments against the statement and to make it a little clearer. > I agree with earlier comments about adding the version number. > Anthony Towns >> Within the D

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Ian Jackson wrote: > Also, >> (4) How can this be fixed? > > This section should be clarified and strengthened. In particular, we > should encourage documentation authors to (at the moment) dual-licence > GDFL/GPL. The recommendation is: "License your documentation under the same license as the

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Anthony Towns wrote: > (2.1) Invariant Sections > > The most troublesome conflict concerns the class of invariant sections > that, once included, may not be modified or removed from the documentation > in future. Modifiability is, however, a fundamental requirement of the > DFSG, which states: >

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 21:17 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > The recommendation is: "License your documentation under the same license > as the program it goes with. If you need to license under the GFDL for some > reason, dual-licence." > > I think -legal came to a very definite consensus that l