Some time ago, there was a discussion to make documents under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) unfree for Debian. This is not necessary.
The FDL seems to have a bug and some flaws. The bug that arbitrary sections can be shut off from modification is only a potential danger for misuse. All of the existing documents fixed only the license sections, no other parts may be fixed by the existing arrangement; so they are clean. Documents, however, that are not written so far could misuse the license theoretically. Therefore, it would be enough to put a freeze to not use the FDL for future documents, but leave the existing documents as free because they are. In my case, this affects the man-pages of groff. I hope that I could make this subtle difference clear. Bernd Warken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
