> > 1. Was GR 2006-01 an exception to the DFSG, or a clarification of > > our principles?
Consider an analogy. An amusement park ride puts up a sign saying that kids must be 4 feet tall to enter. A little while later, it declares that kids must be allowed in if they're 47 inches, and furthermore that this isn't a change to the 4 foot rule. Is that a clarification or an exception? I'd say that someone who couldn't count obviously meant for it to be a clarification. But clarifying means choosing an interpretation of something ambiguous; 4 feet isn't ambiguous. They may have *meant* to clarify the rule, but they really didn't. The same applies to the GR. People had well-reasoned, detailed, arguments about why the GFDL doesn't meet the DFSG. A GR can tell you to ignore a valid argument, but it can't actually make the valid argument become invalid. It can't, in other words, clarify the rules into saying something they don't say; that isn't what a clarification is. It's an exception which pretends to be a clarification. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]