Bjoern Schiessle wrote: > Personally i understand both sides. > On one side manuals are basically as functional as software, so > everyone should have the same freedom for manuals as for software. > On the other side we have the GFDL which was afaik mainly written with > real books in mind. I can understand when the FSF wants to release > their books with a special foreword or a special front- and back > cover and i agree that it's not fundamentally necessary that people > can change the foreword or the cover of a book.
But GFDL is much stricter (and of course, more complicated) than that. AFAICS, this scenario (which I think can be quite reasonable) can be achieved by "mere aggregation" of free (say, GPL) content plus less-free (say, CC by-nd) foreword, cover texts, etc. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fjf.gnu.de/ GnuPG and PGP keys: http://fjf.gnu.de/plan (7977168E) _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
