Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-09 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:22:07PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > indeed, I would not like to see people modifying my points of view and > redistributing saying that's what I think, you see So if I rewrite charsets (7) (which I'm considering), I should make sure that it's under an invarian

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-09 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Gustavo Noronha Silva quotation: > Em Tue, 9 Apr 2002 14:26:39 +0300, Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escreveu: > > > If the GFDL were a "free to use and modify" license, then we would not > > be having this discussion. The problem is that the GFDL specifies > > parts that we are

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Tue, 9 Apr 2002 14:26:39 +0300, Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:02:47PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > > While I don't regard the DFSG as already applying to > > documentation, the spirit of it is naturally extended to cover > > documentation. I would

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-09 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:51:27PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > Richard Braakman wrote: > > What you're advocating is the evil twin of censorship, > > namely forced speech. > > I don't think that placing restrictions on an otherwise > completely liberal license amounts to using any kind of > "force

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-09 Thread Thomas Hood
Joey Hess wrote: >> Protecting the freedom of this form of speech requires a somewhat >> different strategy from the one used to protect the freedom to copy >> source code. > Freedom of software and freedom of speech are two entirely > different animals, and attempting to confuse them as you do >

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-09 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:02:47PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > While I don't regard the DFSG as already applying to > documentation, the spirit of it is naturally extended to cover > documentation. I would suggest that the GFDL is a reasonable > license to use for free documentation --- free as in

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Hood wrote: > Several people said that they didn't want Debian documentation to be > full of political rants. They would like to reserve the right to > delete the parts they don't like from the manuals they package. But > what is this but censorship? And how is censorship compatible with

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Thomas Hood
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200112/msg7.html > Off to read about 100 messages ... ... and a tedious experience it was. I would like to make the following points which I didn't see mentioned in the hundreds of messages (many of them snipes and flames). 1. Document

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:17:28PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > I asked: > > Were there any other important debates about the GFDL > > that should be read? > > To answer my own question: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200112/msg7.html > > Off to read about 100 message

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Thomas Hood
I asked: > Were there any other important debates about the GFDL > that should be read? To answer my own question: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200112/msg7.html Off to read about 100 messages ... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part