Re: Is documentation different from software [Re: Proposed statement wrt GNU FDL]

2003-04-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 22:27, Matthew Palmer wrote: Except that it's typically a lot easier to work out where a program has been incompatibly modified (oops, compile error, damn, the API changed) than a standard has been modified. The use of 'diff' notwithstanding. Well, when you modify a

Is documentation different from software [Re: Proposed statement wrt GNU FDL]

2003-04-25 Thread Mark Rafn
On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Matthew Palmer wrote: I was about to pipe up with but we don't distribute novels with Debian until I realised that we want to distribute a few other novel-like things - pure documentation not associated with a specific software program (eg the hoary old chestnut of the

Re: Is documentation different from software [Re: Proposed statement wrt GNU FDL]

2003-04-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Mark Rafn wrote: Could we produce a distinction amongst our offerings in the following manner: Why do we want to produce a distinction where there is none? We obviously disagree on whether there is a distinction. To roast a hoary chestnut, I've not yet seen a good