On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 11:49 +0300, Thibaut VARENE wrote: (I've shifted this to -project - it's not really relevant to -private)
> This is yet another interesting concept of freedom, democracy, and > "interest of our users". For the benefit of the *very small part of > mind-twisted people that absolutely want to distribute GFDL-ed doc in > no other ways than those that could potentially infringe the license*, > we would deprive the immense majority of those moderately sane people > who just ask for some good doc along their free software, to be able > to code at pace, distribute their code and doc in regular ways and > focus on useful things. We want freedom for everyone we provide software to, not just most people we provide software to. That /is/ a fundamental part of Debian and free software. > I might not grasp the whole concept of it, but I'm having really hard > time figuring out who would *need* to *distribute* *FREE* > documentation on encrypted/DRM media, for instance. Wikipedia is under the GFDL. It would be nice if someone could produce a portable version of Wikipedia for the Sony PSP, except the media is DRM-encumbered and so they probably can't. I think that's an excessive restriction. > Just to remind you of some obvious fact: when trying to comtempt all > _minorities_, one usually ends up comtempting *no one*, for it is > impossible to comtempt *everyone*. But we *can* make people happy in this respect. It's possible for the GFDL to achieve its goal without preventing this use case. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
