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
[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,
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
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?
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
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
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
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,
:
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