The "General Resolution: Why the GNU Free Documentation License is not
suitable for Debian Main"[1] has the following point in the Amendment
Text A:
At the same time, we also consider that works licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License that include no invariant sections do
fully meet the requirements of the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
Do all the manuals released under the GFDL and present in nonfree have
an invariant clause? Personally, I don't want to enable nonfree just to
get a few info files on Debian, so instead I usually download them from
gnu.org. If no compromise is possible to bring them back to main, maybe
it would be possible to move them from nonfree to elsewhere such as a
new location solely dedicated to documentation released under the GFDL?
This way it would allow people like me to get access to this
documentation without having to open the door to all the rest of nonfree
software.
[1] http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001
Thanks,
Loic Duros
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On 07/09/2012 05:04 AM, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
Grant H. wrote:
and the ideal goal is: "an agreed upon list of Debian "bugs" that need
to be solved, according to the usual Debian mechanisms, and with no
special treatment due to their "political" origin."
In short this project (as I understand it) is about making debian more
free and addressing some of the freedom issues the FSF raises. Not the
other way around. We are addressing issues with Debian not with GNU
packages/documentation.
This discussion is about bringing Debian and the FSF closer together.
As the DPL, Stefano talked about what Debian can do. If the outcome of
this discussion is that the FSF can do something as well, and they'd
be happy to do it, then why shouldn't they? I'd feel bad if this
discussion comes down to (or is interpreted as) the FSF making demands
and Debian doing all the work/compromising to fulfill them.
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