Re: existing FDL documentation won't hurt

2001-12-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Bernd Warken wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 06:54:12PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:59:47PM +0100, Bernd Warken wrote: Some time ago, there was a discussion to make documents under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) unfree for Debian. Some time ago,

Re: existing FDL documentation won't hurt

2001-11-26 Thread Bernd Warken
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 06:54:12PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:59:47PM +0100, Bernd Warken wrote: Some time ago, there was a discussion to make documents under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) unfree for Debian. Some time ago, there was an actual

Re: existing FDL documentation won't hurt

2001-11-26 Thread Sunnanvind
-Original Message- From: Bernd Warken [EMAIL PROTECTED] So there should be a note in the Debian wekkly news to make things clear. That's what most people read. There was a link.

Re: existing FDL documentation won't hurt

2001-11-26 Thread Bernd Warken
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 03:45:59PM +, Sunnanvind wrote: -Original Message- From: Bernd Warken [EMAIL PROTECTED] So there should be a note in the Debian wekkly news to make things clear. That's what most people read. There was a link. Yes, but unfortunately, the links

existing FDL documentation won't hurt

2001-11-25 Thread Bernd Warken
Some time ago, there was a discussion to make documents under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) unfree for Debian. This is not necessary. The FDL seems to have a bug and some flaws. The bug that arbitrary sections can be shut off from modification is only a potential danger for misuse.

Re: existing FDL documentation won't hurt

2001-11-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Bernd Warken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some time ago, there was a discussion to make documents under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) unfree for Debian. This is not necessary. ... Therefore, it would be enough to put a freeze to not use the FDL for future documents, but leave the

Re: existing FDL documentation won't hurt

2001-11-25 Thread Sunnanvind Fenderson
Again... this whole issue seems like it originated with me misunderstanding Branden. I somehow (don't ask me how) got under the impression that he thought that the Debian shall remain 100% free software-part of the social contract meant that every part of every piece of software should

Re: existing FDL documentation won't hurt

2001-11-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sunnanvind Fenderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Oh, and by the way, RMS kept ignoring me. That's really creepy, am I in his killfile or something?) Did he get your messages? He doesn't subscribe to debian-legal, so if you over-zealously trimmed him from your messages, of course he wouldn't

Re: existing FDL documentation won't hurt

2001-11-25 Thread Sunnanvind Fenderson
On Monday, November 26, 2001, at 02:18 AM, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Did he get your messages? He doesn't subscribe to debian-legal, so if you over-zealously trimmed him from your messages, of course he wouldn't get them. I'm sure he got at least one (he has that auto-response thing going