On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:01:15AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > Revisionist history, for one. I'm sure the FSF wouldn't appreciate the > GCC document being modified to make it look like Linus Torvalds wrote > GCC, for example.
How does the GFDL stop that? I can add a section to the GCC documentation claiming that I wrote GCC (and emacs, too) and there's nothing in the license that stops me. The GFDL does stop me from changing the texinfo file without noting my changes (i.e. I can't put words in people's mouths); not that people prone to do such things really care about licenses . . . > Or are we just interested in having control in how the > system works? What non-technical material appears when a document comes up is certainly part of how the system works. You can't change a manual with invariant sections into a manpage or a helpscreen without carrying all the invariant sections along; clumsy in the first case and possibly impossible in the second. I use Linux in part to get away from every decent cheap program in Windows having ads; if Caldera funds some new manpages, and every manpage new starts with "Caldera - the system of the future. Upgrade your system to Caldera and it will be 35% faster than your older distribution. More packages than blah blah blah ..." then that's a serious annoyance, that I'm going to want to remove or at least move. If the license doesn't let me, then then I don't really have control of how my system works. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]