MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The current opinion of FSF, at least. In the past, RMS has > worked against advertising clauses far less obnoxious than > the FDL ones. You could summarise what's happening today with > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html and doing s/BSD/FDL/g; > s/sentence/chapter/g; s/system/manual/g; > s/University of California/GNU Manifesto/g and similar:
I agree with your points, but for the sake of clarity it should be noted that: 1) The FSF never argued that the advertising clause made something nonfree, nor have we. 2) The advertising clause does not consist of part of the content of the work itself. > FDL seems like an attempt to sell adverts to attract legacy publishers. > Has it worked? Heh. Of course not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]