Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual
Richard Stallman <rms(a)gnu.org> writes:
But
personally I wish the FSF would amend the GFDL to remove the additional
encumbering restrictions, or simply rename it the GNU Documentation
License:
"The GDL is a not-too-unfree documentation license that reserves
certain non-economic rights to authors, while perpetually
In our judgment, it is free. If you disagree, you're entitled
to your opinion.
If you want to produce a help sheet from the contents of the manual,
having to include the complete invariant sections might prove
prohibitive even where the scope and content of additional invariant
sections has not been chosen explicitly for encumbering further
distribution by a party in the middle.
But of course, this has been trodded out with the Debian people
already, and IIRC the GFDL does not meet their Debian Free Software
Guideline, which was quite closely modeled after the FSF's idea of
Software Freedom as expressed in various publications.
But it leads nowhere to discuss the _name_ of the licence. The only
thing that is interesting is how it is applied, and to what.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum