On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 05:19:37PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > don't be an idiot. you only have to keep the invariant sections if you > > are DISTRIBUTING a copy. you can do whatever you want with your own > > copy. > > Right, so you can't *distribute* a copy on an ASCII-only medium, even > of the English translation of a Japanese manual, if the Japanese > version...
there's nothing in the GFDL that prevents you from doing that. the capabilities of your medium are beyond the ability of the GFDL (or any license) to control. > Oh, never mind. Craig is not listening, he's just vomiting words out > his mouth. Sorry. no, it's lying arseholes like you who aren't listening. like every other argument against the GFDL and every other alleged "proof" that the GFDL is non-free, this is a mere CONVENIENCE ISSUE, not a FREEDOM ISSUE. the DFSG does not require convenience, it only requires freedom. stop trying to pretend that convenience is a freedom issue. it isn't. i know that completely destroys all your arguments against the GFDL but you'll just have to live with that - it being the truth and all. being a lunatic bigoted zealot, you wont comprehend this but normal people place a high value on truth. it may be horribly inconvenient to not be able to usably install a foreign language document on an english-only device, but that is UTTERLY IRRELEVENT TO WHETHER THE DOCUMENT IS FREE OR NOT. similarly, you can not legally install free software without permission on a computer that does not belong to you - but that does not make the software non-free. nor can i run an i386 binary of a GNU program on a PPC CPU. that does not make the GNU program non-free. in case this simple point is beyond your meager powers of reasoning, the point is that some things are entirely outside the bounds of what a free license is capable of achieving - e.g. it can't legally grant you permission to install the software on someone else's machine and it can't make your english-only machine magically capable of understanding japanese. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (part time cyborg) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
