On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 05:50:08PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:11:10PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:41:18AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > > > http://people.debian.org/~willy/dfdocg-0.4.txt > > > > > > This inherits its definition of Transparent from the FDL, but > > > some DDs consider that awkward. Is there a better one? > > > > I wasn't aware that people had expressed problems with the definition > > of Transparent; it looked pretty good to me. > > Openoffice documents are classified as Opaque, thusly cannot be > distributed under the GFDL nor included in Debian under this > scheme. Nor can word documents, etc...
Ah, because they aren't editable in a "generic text editor"? Fair point. Mako, is this something that's been raised with the FSF in your ctte? Andrew, do you want Debian to be able to distribute Word docs? > > > This conflicts with "Derived Works" by denying > > > some modifications (and do most understand that as "permit > > > all reasonable modifications"?) > > > > I think it's reasonable to deny some modifications. "Derived Works" > > doesn't say "must allow any modifications". Just like the GPL denies > > some freedoms in order to preserve others. > > You have provided no justification as to why these restrictions can be > permitted for 'documentation' (which you haven't defined) and why they > cannot be permitted for 'non-documentation'. Thusly, dismissed as > hand-waving. I'm not sure I need to define documentation. We aren't robots, we can make judgement calls on what is, or is not, documentation. Did you want to make a stab at defining documentation? -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]