[Trisquel-users] Re : Re: vrms

[magicbanana]

The main (if not only) difference between FSF's and Debian's definitions of  
free indeed relates to the GNU Free Document License. It is wrong to write  
that the FSF only cares about software and not about its documentation. After  
all, it is the author of the GNU FDL!

As far as I know, the Debian Free Software Guidelines consider this license  
non-free because it accepts "invariant sections". The whole idea behind them  
was to prevent the removal/edit of "political sections" such as the GNU  
manifesto. To me it makes sense that such sections should not be allowed to  
be modified because, writing them, their authors personally engage  
themselves. I am not sure whether the GNU FDL allows a section of "proper  
documentation" to be made invariant. If so, that indeed looks problematic.