On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:54:40AM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Let the sheet instead be a coffee cup; in Germany Lehmann's sell > >> cups with Emacs or vi commands on them. You can't add a second cup > >> for the invariant sections, even if they fit on it, since people > >> usually buy or donate (and use) only one cup at a time. > > > > The same trick works here - one cup and one sheet of paper. Not > > everybody will like that solution but it works. > > Excuse me, you are telling me that a sheet of paper is a "front matter" > or "appendix" of a cup? How do you ensure that the "front matter" is > still readable after a couple of rounds of pouring coffee, spilling > coffee, and dishwasher use?
thank you for this shining example. if anyone was wondering what i meant by saying that the loony zealots go off on irrelevant pedantic tangents, then here is a perfect example. coffee cups - you people really aren't even close to sane, are you? and yet you take yourself so seriously. how strange. > Or are you trying to write a satire? pot. kettle. black. > >> Imagine that AUCTeX's manual was under GFDL, and I want to distribute > >> only file:///usr/share/doc/auctex/HTML/auctex/auctex_11.html (which > >> deals with language support) in a documentation bundle about "Optimizing > >> TeX workflow for i18n and l10n". > > > > It is not inconvenient to distribute auctex_11.html together with the > > invariant sections. > > Of course it is - imagine that my documentation contains parts from 10 > documents, all under GFDL, all using lots of invariant sections - that > would be more than inconvenient. the DFSG does not require convenience. it requires freedom. lack of convenience DOES NOT equate to non-free. case in point - it is inconvenient (for both the distributor and the user) to distribute modified software in the form of original work + patch file. very inconvenient. in fact, a complete PITA, especially for the user. yet that is explicitly defined as being free in the DFSG. feel free to ignore this fact - it's based in reality and doesn't conform to your loony zealot prejudices. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (part time cyborg) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
