[Sussex] Distros
Geoffrey J Teale
tealeg at member.fsf.org
Mon Apr 4 18:44:13 UTC 2005
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.
--
Geoff Teale
Free Software Foundation
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