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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The "General Resolution: Why the GNU
Free Documentation License is not suitable for Debian Main"[1] has
the following point in the Amendment Text A:<br>
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<p> At the same time, we also consider that works licensed under
the GNU Free Documentation License that include no invariant
sections do fully meet the requirements of the Debian Free
Software Guidelines.<br>
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<p>Do all the manuals released under the GFDL and present in
nonfree have an invariant clause? Personally, I don't want to
enable nonfree just to get a few info files on Debian, so
instead I usually download them from gnu.org. If no compromise
is possible to bring them back to main, maybe it would be
possible to move them from nonfree to elsewhere such as a new
location solely dedicated to documentation released under the
GFDL? This way it would allow people like me to get access to
this documentation without having to open the door to all the
rest of nonfree software.<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001">http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001</a><br>
<p>Thanks,<br>
</p>
<p>Loic Duros<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lduros@gnu.org">lduros@gnu.org</a></p>
On 07/09/2012 05:04 AM, Sam Geeraerts wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4FFA9E8C.10907@elmundolibre.be" type="cite">Grant
H. wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">and the ideal goal is: "an agreed upon
list of Debian "bugs" that need
<br>
to be solved, according to the usual Debian mechanisms, and with
no
<br>
special treatment due to their "political" origin."
<br>
<br>
In short this project (as I understand it) is about making
debian more
<br>
free and addressing some of the freedom issues the FSF raises.
Not the
<br>
other way around. We are addressing issues with Debian not with
GNU
<br>
packages/documentation.
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<br>
This discussion is about bringing Debian and the FSF closer
together. As the DPL, Stefano talked about what Debian can do. If
the outcome of this discussion is that the FSF can do something as
well, and they'd be happy to do it, then why shouldn't they? I'd
feel bad if this discussion comes down to (or is interpreted as)
the FSF making demands and Debian doing all the work/compromising
to fulfill them.
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