Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The point I am making is that Debian might indeed remove the political > essays from our manuals if they could be removed. A few months ago, > some people said here that if only the invariant sections could be > removed (even though they could not be modified), nobody would ever > remove them. Now people are saying they would indeed be removed.
NO NO NO. Nobody said that "nobody would ever remove the sections"; they said nobody would remove them IF they were free. But free requires that they be both modifiable and removable. If they were that, they would be there. > The GFDL is doing its job by guarding against this. Debian may label > our manuals as "non-free", an appelation I disagree with and will > criticize, but at least it cannot remove them. Yep, it can. The manuals will be removed. > But now I see that this idea has a serious drawback: Debian would > probably immediately remove the invariant sections and distribute the > manual sans invariant sections under the GPL. I think that nixes it. Why not make the sections changeable?
