Adam McKenna writes: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 02:29:18PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: > > So is it acceptable for the GFDL to prohibit me from performing these > > two operations: > > > > cp some-gfdl-licensed-document.txt ~/local-copy.txt > > chmod 0700 ~/local-copy.txt > > How do those two operations prevent you from making further copies of the > file and distributing them?
Prevent me, as the file owner? They don't. However, they do obstruct or control the further reading and copying of the work. I have sympathy with what the GFDL is trying to accomplish, but I do not think that any of its origin, its objective or its degree of use is a good basis to ignore drafting flaws that would lead us to declare as non-free any other license sharing the same flaws. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
