Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Kinda, but not really. It seems that Debian's objections against the > GFDL are highly academic and unlikely to arise in practice. I mean, > how many of those objections have actually worked against Wikipedia, > the largest collection of "software" (as Debian calls it) under the > GFDL? [...]
Is this a joke? Have people forgotten Wikipedia unilaterally relicensed without getting consent from its copyright holders? See near the end of http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/05/msg00565.html The linked emails now seem to be http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000627.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-June/002251.html but Wikipedia URIs are not Cool http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI Perhaps some would call this academic, but then perhaps some call any copyright infringment which is not prosecuted an academic worry. Should non-enforcement encourage us to ignore the expressed wishes? > Small excerpts (e.g. an Emacs reference card from the Emacs info docs) > are probably covered under Fair Use. [...] This is England calling. I don't get what USians call Fair Use. The FDL is a practical problem in several ways, including reference cards, poison pill invariant sections and inability to fix some sections. > [...] Debian > really is the odd distro out here by considering GFDL docs non-free. Not even RMS or the FSF calls the FDL a Free Software licence. > [...] > FSF: Er... Maybe we can work something out? > > Debian: What? Wait, I'm busy... There! Your filthy propaganda has > been moved to non-free. [...] This is wrong. Debian delayed moving FDL'd stuff to non-free for over a year after the problem was noticed, waiting on promised FSF cooperation. I think a full release went out in the meantime. As I understand it, it was FSF asking us to wait because they were busy with things and then the GPLv3. I think the Debian project was more than willing to help resolve this amicably, but FSF seemed determined to keep the non-free-software aspects of FDL and was just yanking our chain. Even then, some FDL'd material got a special approval into main. Regards, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
