From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Documentation on the command-line? Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 20:46:32 -0600 Message-ID: <20140703024632.GA26627@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <87fvik1900.fsf@debian.uxu> <87y4wb2n7u.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404355625 32494 80.91.229.3 (3 Jul 2014 02:47:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 02:47:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 03 04:46:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X2X34-00030L-0j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:46:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57399 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2X33-0002I2-I0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 22:46:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53181) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2X2n-0002Hk-Mm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 22:46:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2X2f-0008Un-QL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 22:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:59308) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2X2f-0008Ud-Jn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 22:46:33 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F374218C4 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2014 20:46:32 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 36B072DC25; Wed, 2 Jul 2014 20:46:32 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y4wb2n7u.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98524 Archived-At: 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