vjs(_at_)calcite(_dot_)rhyolite(_dot_)com (Vernon Schryver) wrote on 19.10.04
in <200410191522(_dot_)i9JFMFpJ009867(_at_)calcite(_dot_)rhyolite(_dot_)com>:
Someone wrote me privately:
] For an open source guy he
] has some pretty funny legal language:
]
] http://www.catb.org/~esr/copying.html
That page includes this restriction:
} You may not make or redistribute static copies (whether print or
} online) without my express permission.
This is an interesting point in case.
He shares this idea with rms, who uses the GFDL for a similar goal.
*Huge* parts of the community do not share that idea. There's a reason
Debian, for example, sees the GFDL as a non-free license. A number of more
and less prominent *gcc developers* (people who assign their copyrights to
rms' FSF) share this particular concern and think that text *should* be
under the same kind of free licenses as software.
So be careful with statements about representing these people!
MfG Kai
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