-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 20:40:13 -0500, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: >> The FSF's idea is that if people are allowed to modify works of >> opinion, they are going to distort it and misrepresent the original >> author(s). The FSF claims that this is the only possible reason one >> could have for modifying a work of opinion, which is nonsense. > > Where has the FSF claimed this? I'd like to read the evidence for this > claim for myself.
Misrepresentation was stated; I'm not sure about the rest of it. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html#opinions "To modify them is to misrepresent the authors; so modifying these works is not a socially useful activity. And so verbatim copying is the only thing that people really need to be allowed to do." https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#OpinionLicenses - -- Mike Gerwitz Free Software Hacker | GNU Maintainer http://mikegerwitz.com FSF Member #5804 | GPG Key ID: 0x8EE30EAB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVOvfbAAoJEPIruBWO4w6riHsP+gL097vvtXc4w+Lzl0h5Dam/ Ro/bWdVuiXC6Wibl/O77IXMB5kEoxMiaAm47kyIfQDv5EoYIdLx/oSdhHo++q6x3 2H1BvhCLZ/2oMn6l9DjgcYklYbTy9ueIaXEIexU3PguhLQU494xLoLa58luXPciC 5JCj5CWZehUEAzdFlUtsROD2R16uA11tdLMAJGTOUhUJ9Ecktbknnjo5ylPbB2wj UyJQPJyoeFiH3ckofbCWx3NXrevokSHol0L5Dq8u8FkjqbvoTESQeG5D3+BP2KhY lpHSfqHLRp54lKRQxIPN/c9/EOQ4DTF2vPQZqdeXuM5sSSGHS8jpsKdCOJmNp0BD KChlL3V3exSiTjbgd7Y0x7oasZ5GnP6JfLqXSkQC6xQoBMzw75pGGBPFV4n1Iw/D yNpLpIOjjCnlI55arIotfjvk25W/2n3EbhBDfeAQskl7iRERresjPX3b4L+Y4cNm gAcSwqWwqcZpJSnSYOHbY4q5w/RhN2mvIdAlqpzfPE88XxYvaGDD9MODkg8XNVw7 hwDITIJjUOQeMxSWP+Rq3LZ42apGOcDX+j9P1HPqoTZvAo7tDaSJolbJ32xcL1ai oEvBV49IivKnrd2Zp9N7lmWwrr2fQ/2tEDFeChEwfZ6mgvzhWz7nvtaLW5btl4Rg 30A8eTn2S3ZJDJPMfbXM =jcqh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----