On Wednesday 01 February 2006 18:20, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm seriously asking, because I don't see it either permitting OR > > limiting; it just says modifiablility. You read it assume it means that > > no limits are allowed. Someone else reads it and assumes that it means > > some limits are okay. > > How does that someone else determine *which* limits are ok? After > all, their position is that the GFDL permits some limits but not > others.
They use common sense. If they are wrong in a specific instance, a bunch of people will argue about it on debian-legal and the ftp-masters will either let it in/kick it out or not. You know, the way it works for EVERYTHING ELSE in Debian. =) > And yet, nobody has presented their interpretation. So far, only one > interpretation has been given: the DFSG permits whatever modifications > the user wishes. (Or, alternatively, it permits whatever changes are > deemed useful by the user, and the user is the judge of what is a > useful change.) If there is another interpretation, it's time to give > it, rather than just saying vaguely that it must be there. Okay, here is a possible interpretation: The DFSG requires all reasonable modifications. "Reasonable" is always determined in an case-by-base basis. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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