On Thu, October 2, 2008 1:02 am, Sandip Bhattacharya said: > On Thursday 02 October 2008 00:55:21 Atanu Datta wrote: >> >> All GNU documentation, including that of GNU make, are released under >> GNU FDL. May I know why Debian Free Software Guidelines considers it >> non-free? >> > > http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml > > > I am not sure how current it is, but Manoj can clarify that. It is a > rather poetic display of the clash between FSF's and Debian's > interpretation of what freedom should be. :) Debian's points do matter, > legally speaking, but if you take a step back and see what is > happening, it sometimes makes you shake your head. >
Aha, that's a huge explanation. I will surely invest a substantial amount of time to understand what is being said there. There's a good story in this. However, I personally would beg to support the "outright banning DRM mechanisms". --Atanu P.S. --> The Web page has links under the "Related Links: (provided by Branden Robinson)" sections that lead to 404 Not Found on the server messages. Can that be fixed please? _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
