On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 01:39:45PM -0500, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> from the documentation in question:
> "Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
> under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
> any later version published by the Free Software F
Scripsit Mike O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Debian does have the requirement that you can modify the licenses that
> software is released under, right?
No, we traditionally do accept non-modifiable licenses, though we try
weakly to discourage them.
--
Henning Makholm"De
Mike O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > [see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL ].
>
> That URL says that you can modify the GPL to create your own license,
> then release your software under that license, just don't call it "GPL"
> anymore. It doesn't say, you can take some work th
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 20:13 +, MJ Ray wrote:
> Mike O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Finally, the GPL is not invariant: IIRC, you can edit it if you delete
> the preamble [see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL ].
> Debian contains the version we received, though. On debian sy
Mike O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The only things the documentation license holds as invariant are the GPL
> and the GFDL themselves, and Debian already accepts those as being
> invariant, this documentation should no longer be considered non-free in
> light of GR-2006-01. But becuase of this, I
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