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[Geoffrey J Teale]

Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li> writes:
>
> Quoting Matthew Garret:
> 	 If I submit a patch to GCC including documentation with an
> 	 invariant section describing why "Open Source" is a preferable
> 	 term to "Free Software", the invariant section must be included
> 	 if my documentation is to be used. Theoretically, this may not
> 	 be an issue - pragmatically, it results in a situation where a
> 	 patch under the same license as the original documentation
> 	 cannot be accepted.

Exactly!  Simply put, you have the freedom to do that and the license
is designed in such a way that allows it. 

I do understand the issues you've raised, and I appreciate where the
Debian movement is coming from, I just also know what the GFDL is
about and I know it's not an issue that goes away just by saying it's
OK to GPL everything.

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Geoff Teale
Free Software Foundation