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From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documentation on the command-line?
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 20:46:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140703024632.GA26627@hysteria.proulx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4wb2n7u.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com>

Robert Thorpe wrote:
> Emanuel Berg writes:
> > Yeah, what is the reason?
> 
> Most free-software/open-source licenses require someone passing on the
> code to pass on the license. The GNU Free Documentation License als
> requires them to include a little essay by RMS.  The Debian maintainers
> objected to that and labeled GFDL a "non-free" license.  There was a
> kerfuffle about it a few years ago.

Not quite.  The main problem was Invariant Sections.  That was
specifically the problem with the Emacs documentation.

Rather than summarize let me refer you to the official statement of
why the GFDL is considered to be a non-free license.  Then I will
avoid errors in paraphrasing.

  http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001

Bob



  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-03  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.4692.1404265508.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-02  8:05 ` Documentation on the command-line? Emanuel Berg
2014-07-03  2:24   ` Robert Thorpe
2014-07-03  2:46     ` Bob Proulx [this message]
     [not found] <87mwcshia0.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
2014-07-01 22:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-07-02  1:44   ` Robert Thorpe
     [not found] <mailman.4651.1404228752.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-01 16:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-07-01 18:53   ` Sharon Kimble
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4672.1404240819.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-01 20:58     ` Emanuel Berg
2014-07-01 15:32 Sharon Kimble
2014-07-01 16:46 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-07-01 18:40   ` Sharon Kimble
     [not found] ` <mailman.4665.1404233238.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-01 21:12   ` Emanuel Berg

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