On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:48:03 +0000, MJ Ray said: > Apart from the bit which is slightly off the current topic, but > could be relevant for future topics! If I staple a program to a > dead squirrel and the copyright licence says every copy must be > linked to a dead squirrel, is it free software?
We have seen similar things in the past. For example the "GPLed" version of PGP 2 which had two additional restrictions, one was that the long text file with the crypto political background must accompany all distributions of PGP. Clearly that was non-free but something which can easily be done with the GFDL. > Has it stopped? Anyone got an announcement? I missed it. I am not sure whether there has been an announcement but the GNU Press project is at least dormant since Opus had to leave the FSF. > Only for limited purposes, which vary from country to country. > In general, it's not legal to do so. For example a book on networks might want to include the OOB-Data text from glibc. With 48 lines (w/o the example) it is clearly beyond fair use. > So GPL for reference manuals would be fine by you? According to RMS, reference manuals are useless ;-) Shalom-Salam, Werner _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
