From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Copyright question
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:58:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080613095819.GB2618@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1K70Yc-0004QV-5G@fencepost.gnu.org>
Hi, Richard!
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:06:34AM -0400, Richard M Stallman wrote:
> Debian's policy is foolish and unfriendly to us. So we do not cater to
> it. If they don't like the results, they should change the policy.
It needs to be pointed out, in all fairness, that the Gnu Free
Documentation License is very controversial, being far from universally
loved by hackers (in contrast to the GPL), and is regarded as suspect by
many good hackers and several Emacs developers.
The reservations stem from the restrictions the GFDL imposes on the
freedom to adapt and reuse documents. These are much more onerous than
those imposed by the GPL.
Whilst Debian's policy is not friendly towards "us", it is unfair to
brand it as foolish. It is motivated by the desire to keep documentation
free.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-13 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-12 14:43 Copyright question Carsten Dominik
2008-06-12 19:30 ` David Hansen
2008-06-12 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13 8:19 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-06-13 9:59 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-13 22:48 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-14 13:15 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-06-14 20:11 ` Don Armstrong
2008-06-15 17:55 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-12 19:40 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-12 20:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-12 20:51 ` İsmail Dönmez
2008-06-12 23:31 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-13 8:55 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-06-13 9:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-13 9:36 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-13 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13 10:35 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-06-13 11:00 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-12 21:08 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-12 21:31 ` Don Armstrong
2008-06-12 23:03 ` Bastien
2008-06-13 3:13 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-06-13 4:06 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-13 7:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-13 9:51 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-13 9:58 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2008-06-13 22:48 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-14 12:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-14 19:16 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-14 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-14 21:36 ` David Kastrup
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