On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:02:47PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > While I don't regard the DFSG as already applying to > documentation, the spirit of it is naturally extended to cover > documentation. I would suggest that the GFDL is a reasonable > license to use for free documentation --- free as in 'free > to use and modify', but also free as in 'free speech'.
If the GFDL were a "free to use and modify" license, then we would not be having this discussion. The problem is that the GFDL specifies parts that we are _not_ free to modify, or even to delete. > Several people said that they didn't want Debian > documentation to be full of political rants. They would > like to reserve the right to delete the parts they don't > like from the manuals they package. But what is this but > censorship? And how is censorship compatible with liberty? What you're advocating is the evil twin of censorship, namely forced speech. Richard Braakman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
