Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread MJ Ray
I suggest a few wording changes and additions to avoid some arguments against the statement and to make it a little clearer. I agree with earlier comments about adding the version number. Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au Within the Debian community there has been a significant amount of

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony Towns writes (GR Proposal: GFDL statement): Bcc'ed to -project, -legal and -private; followups to -vote please. It's been six months since the social contract changes that forbid non-free documentation went into effect [0], and we're still distributing GFDLed stuff in unstable [1]. I

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:37:32 +, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I suggest a few wording changes and additions to avoid some arguments against the statement and to make it a little clearer. I agree with earlier comments about adding the version number. Anthony Towns

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Ian Jackson wrote: Also, (4) How can this be fixed? This section should be clarified and strengthened. In particular, we should encourage documentation authors to (at the moment) dual-licence GDFL/GPL. The recommendation is: License your documentation under the same license as the

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Anthony Towns wrote: (2.1) Invariant Sections The most troublesome conflict concerns the class of invariant sections that, once included, may not be modified or removed from the documentation in future. Modifiability is, however, a fundamental requirement of the DFSG, which states:

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 21:17 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: The recommendation is: License your documentation under the same license as the program it goes with. If you need to license under the GFDL for some reason, dual-licence. I think -legal came to a very definite consensus that