On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:13:13PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
In the compiled form of a manual, as long as there is no DRM to stop
you from reading it, everything that matters is plain to see. You see
the contents, and you even see the fonts and indentation that were
selected by the
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This is why the GFDL does not require complete corresponding source
code for a published manual. It's easier to change the manual if you
have this, but no disaster if you don't: you just have to write your
own mark-up, which is pretty straightforward. The
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think that nontechnical invariant comments do not make a program
non-free, but not for those reasons. The reason is that this is a
packaging requirement that doesn't really restrict you from making the
program substantively behave as you want it
The main difference between a program and documentation is that a
program does something, while documentation is passive;
By this argument, source code to a program (of the sort which must be
compiled to run) is not a program.
That's a pedantic approach to the issue. I'd say a
Richard Stallman wrote:
The main difference between a program and documentation is that a
program does something, while documentation is passive;
By this argument, source code to a program (of the sort which must be
compiled to run) is not a program.
That's a pedantic
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