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Cover Texts in the automake documentation
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Eric Dorland |
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Cover Texts in the automake documentation |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:20:55 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 |
Hello,
Recently, after long deliberations and talks with the FSF, the Debian
project voted that GFDL documents containing unmodifiable sections
were non-free according to the DFSG
(http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001). Please see
http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml to
understand why Debian objects to parts of the GFDL.
Unfortunately, the license for the automake manual contains looks like
this:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts
being ``A GNU Manual,'' and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
``GNU Free Documentation License.''
(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have freedom to copy and
modify this
GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free
Software
Foundation raise funds for GNU development.''
So as it stands now, I will have to move the documentation into the
non-free archive. Is there any way you might consider dropping the
Front and Back Cover Texts requirements from the manual?
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