Em Qui, 2006-01-19 às 20:30 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG escreveu: > Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It was my understanding that this is what the amendment was attempting to > > do > > - to establish a position statement stating that > > GFDL-minus-invariant-sections was problematic but still DFSG-free (and > > therefore acceptable in main). Is your point that the amendment wasn't > > sufficiently explicit? > No. I understood the amendment exactly as Manoj has characterized it: > it was an amendment to permit the GFDL in, whether or not it is > DFSG-free.
Just to make it clear: "We consider that the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 conflicts with traditional requirements for free software in a variety of ways, explained in detail in the Problems of the GFDL section below." And later, on "Problems of the GFDL" "The DRM Restriction [...] Transparent And Opaque Copies [...] Invariant Sections" So, the amendment do recognize the other problems, but still... "We believe that works licensed under the GFDL that include no such unmodifiable sections do fully meet the spirit of the Debian Free Software Guidelines, and have a place in our distribution despite the other problems (minor, in comparison) that the GFDL has." It's something like, "Hey GFDL has problems, but it has the *spirit*, so the other problems doesn't matter"... Unfortunally, spirit doesn't changes the license... And also: "Despite the compromise above, GFDL'd documentation is still not free of trouble: as an example, it is incompatible with the major free software licenses, which means that GFDL'd text can't be incorporated into free programs." So... If the intention was to refute the interpretation of the GFDL license that thinks the other problems do exist? Shouldn't it be forced to say that the problems doesn't exist? If the amendment recognizes that the other problems exists but still wants to includes it in main, so it changes the DFSG. daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
