On Jun 08, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I can't imagine why people are afraid that other people will change the > standards. Why should anybody try to apply essential changes to, for > example, the FSSTND?
Dunno. But a lot of people have a copyright restriction in the document to make sure that the actual integrity of the standard remains intact (see, for example, the W3C's standards for HTTP and HTML). I don't think we adversely impact the "freeness" of the distribution by including text that should not be modified before it is redistributed; you are always free to add additional text somewhere else to address technical concerns in the documents, for example. And a documentation package that is not up-to-date can always be dropped from the distribution. Apologies for not being a free documentation fanatic (even though I do write free software), Chris -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | The truth really is out there... | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.memphiswatch.org/ | | | | | Contract Programmer | Are you tired of politics as usual? | | FedEx Ops Research | http://www.lp.org/ | ============================================================================= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
