Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Maybe GNU should consider the option to provide its manuals > in two versions, one without philosophical/political/historical > texts, one as the current manuals. > > I considered this possibility in the 1980s, not as an option but > rather as a potential problem. So I developed a method to make sure > this would not happen: invariant sections. The danger has not gone > away, so we still need invariant sections.
Clearly, as a publisher/copyright-holder you must believe this. I don't really believe it. In the 1980s, formalized free software was a new concept for almost everybody. Today, there are too many free software projects for the word _not_ to get out. If you didn't make your philosophical Invariant, I'm quite sure Debian developer's that package your software would leave them in. Peer pressure is a more important tool in this community than forcing things on people. Peter
