Re: GFDL'ed documents with Front Cover text

2006-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 12:55:33AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, I expect it will be more efficient if we can approach the FSF for a blanket license change. No; from what we can tell, RMS is personally blocking even the simplest and most obvious license

Re: GFDL'ed documents with Front Cover text

2006-03-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, I expect it will be more efficient if we can approach the FSF for a blanket license change. No; from what we can tell, RMS is personally blocking even the simplest and most obvious license changes, and nobody with authority in the FSF will go up against him,

Re: GFDL'ed documents with Front Cover text

2006-03-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 02:09:02PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Frank said: assume a document licensed under GFDL, with no invariant sections (and ...) has a front cover text (like A GNU Manual) and a back cover text [...] What should the developers do in order to make it DFSG-free

Re: GFDL'ed documents with Front Cover text

2006-03-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 01:08:16AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 02:09:02PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: This implies that a document with no invariant sections, but with one-sentence front- and back-cover sections does not meet the DFSG? Is that Debian's position?

Re: GFDL'ed documents with Front Cover text

2006-03-26 Thread Jaakko Kangasharju
Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For example, GMP has Front-Cover Text A GNU Manual and Back-Cover Text You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software and no invariant sections. Must I really throw this document out of Debian (BTS

Re: GFDL'ed documents with Front Cover text

2006-03-26 Thread MJ Ray
Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have approached the GMP developers both on the GMP list and privately. It turns out that the copyright is assigned to FSF so they have no authority (or so they claim) to change the license. I was advised to contact FSF about it. Please ask them what

Re: GFDL'ed documents with Front Cover text

2006-03-25 Thread Josh Triplett
Steve M. Robbins wrote: Frank said: assume a document licensed under GFDL, with no invariant sections (and ...) has a front cover text (like A GNU Manual) and a back cover text [...] What should the developers do in order to make it DFSG-free [...] This implies that a document with no

Re: GFDL'ed documents with Front Cover text

2006-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] This implies that a document with no invariant sections, but with one-sentence front- and back-cover sections does not meet the DFSG? Is that Debian's position? Debian's position is: : that works that don't include any Invariant Sections, Cover Texts, :