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Subject: Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual
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      But
    personally I wish the FSF would amend the GFDL to remove the additional
    encumbering restrictions, or simply rename it the GNU Documentation
    License:

	"The GDL is a not-too-unfree documentation license that reserves
	certain non-economic rights to authors, while perpetually

In our judgment, it is free.  If you disagree, you're entitled
to your opinion.