Re: Debian and the GNU Free documentation license

[Gunnar Wolf]

Manoj Srivastava dijo [Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 03:42:02PM -0500]:
> Hi folks,
> 
>It's been a few days since my last message. I have added a print
>  style sheet, so one can use a free Browser (mozilla) to print the
>  position statement. I have added a couple of new examples, an
>  inchoate software documentation freedoms list, and I have started an
>  outline of the formal position statement at the top of the docs.
>  That should develop into the integrated position statement we'll put
>  to vote.

Although late, thanks :-) The on-screen version for your document was
*much* more readable than the one I printed to read while on the bys,
with no CSS in order to make itbehave :)

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Re: Debian and the GNU Free documentation license

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi folks,

   It's been a few days since my last message. I have added a print
 style sheet, so one can use a free Browser (mozilla) to print the
 position statement. I have added a couple of new examples, an
 inchoate software documentation freedoms list, and I have started an
 outline of the formal position statement at the top of the docs.
 That should develop into the integrated position statement we'll put
 to vote.

The URL of the document is:
 http://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml>

manoj
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Re: Debian and the GNU Free documentation license

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,

I have updated the position summary page with responses from
 RMS to some of the concerns (thanks to Bob Hilliard for bringing them
 to my attention), added a nascent Overview section (which currently
 only has links deeper into the page), and general spell check and a
 few typographical corrections. I also removed a spurious font size
 specification in the style sheet, which may make for easier reading
 for some folks.

Again, the document lives at:
 http://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml>
or, if your browser balks ath the xml+xhtml mime type, at:
 http://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/Position_Statement.html>

Does anyone have suggestions for a pithy position blurb to be
 appended to the overview?

manoj

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Re: Debian and the GNU Free documentation license

[Manoj Srivastava]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:07:04 +0200, Andreas Metzler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:  

> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Thanks for your patience. The URL of the document is:
>> http://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml>

> Great work. But if this is supposed to be read by all dds it should
> have gone to -announce, shouldn't it?

These are early days yet. We have just begun crafting this
 document, I am hoping people on -legal, who have studied the gfdl,
 would point out things missing, and add more concerete examples. The
 URL has been posted on debian-devel, debian-legal, and debian-vote.
 Anyone not reading any of these three lists probably does not want to
 be bothered by this as such an early stage.

When the document is further advanced, and we are closer to
 stating that we find the GFDL non free, I'll post again to -vote and
 -devel-announce. 

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Re: Debian and the GNU Free documentation license

[Andreas Metzler]

Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Beginning in 2001, concerns regarding the compatibility of the
> GNU Free Documentation License with the Debian Free Software
> Guidelines came to the attention of the debian-legal mailing list.
[...]
>Unfortunately, most of this discussion has been confined to
> the debian-legal mailing list, with the result that people like me
> who do not follow debian-legal are not aware of the situation, and,
> for the most, do not know the details of the issue involved.

>If the concerns of the people on debian-legal are shared by
> the developer body at large, we may have a potentially serious
> issue. The first step to determine this is making people aware of
> the issues involved.  The next would be to see if we can reach a
> determination of the position the project at large want to take on
> this issue.
[...]
>Thanks for your patience. The URL of the document is:
> http://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml>

Great work. But if this is supposed to be read by all dds it should
have gone to -announce, shouldn't it?
cu and- followed the respective discussions on -legal for some
time, but it is just repeating itself over and over
now -reas