Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual

sjt> But personally I wish the FSF would amend the GFDL to sjt> remove the additional encumbering restrictions, or simply sjt> rename it the GNU Documentation License: sjt> "The GDL is a not-too-unfree documentation license sjt> that reserves certain non-economic rights to authors, while sjt> perpetually rms> In our judgment, it is free. If you disagree, you're rms> entitled to your opinion. That is exactly the point. I _am_ entitled to my opinion, as are the Debian Project, and the various BSD projects, and the OSI, as well as the general public. To the extent that the disagreement is widespread and deeply rooted, the FSF has a public relations problem. Now, I'm only one person, and my particular position is probably unusual, and definitely extreme. So maybe the public relations problem pointed out here is "small" compared to the benefits of insisting that the GFDL is "free". That's for you to judge; I simply wish to point out that the issue is not which definition of freedom is correct, but that treating the existence of differences as negligible harms us all. Extremism-in-the-defense-of-freedom-is-no-vice-ly y'rs, -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.