On 07/08/07, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11104 March 1977, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > : Why are three words enough to make thousands upon thousands > > of words nonfree? > > Because it is non-free. > Compare with a source tarball, where one could say "But this is just one > twenty-line file which is non-free, and the other 500000 lines are > free. Why is this enough to make the rest non-free?". That just doesn't > work.
But we can't modify the COPYING file in a source tarball, and that's ok. Why isn't a cover text like "a GNU manual" also acceptable? - Jordi G. H.