Re: [gNewSense-users] GFDL

[Kevin Dean]

The GFDL allows for certain parts to have a "you can't edit this"..
For instance the author's name, cover art and bibliographic
information...

This is NOT a required part of the license... For instance, the
gNewSense website itself uses GFDL with NO invariant sections.

I say that pretty clearly established at least HALF of the issue. GFDL
with no invariant is certainly a Free License. Debian believes that
the GFDL WITH invariant is non-free because it can't be modified; I'd
also agree with one exception... If the invariant part is the author's
name, I consider that still Free - after all you can't modify the text
of the GPL itself or the copyright notice.



On 9/1/07, Paul O'Malley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Tryggvi Björgvinsson wrote:
>
>
> > But, if I understand you correctly, the "no invariant" makes the license
> > free. How come the packages are named for example automake1.9-nonfree.
> I imagine this is a debianism
> to check this out why not download the packages you want
>
> apt-cache policy packagename
>
> this tells you where it is from and what its name is
>
> then make a directory
>
> lets say:
>
> /home/user/Desktop/test-packagename
>
> then in a terminal on desktop
>
> dpkg -x test-packagename/.
> cd test-packagename
>
> wander about it all and check licences and see what hops out
>
> I imagine it is naming based on GFDL and there is nothing we can do
> about that without serious hackage on lots of packages.
>
> >
> > Trying to figure it out by myself the "no invariant" makes it possible
> > to change the contents (freedom 3).
> correct
> P.
>
>
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