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What is the Debian situationWhat is the Debian situationPosted Mar 27, 2007 19:02 UTC (Tue) by vmole (guest, #111)In reply to: What is the Debian situation by coriordan Parent article: A new GPLv3 timetable
Why bother? During the comment period for the original GFDL, all the current objections (e.g. invariant texts, covers, and some subtle and possibly obscure issues about encrtypted copies) were raised, detailed, and discussed with RMS and the FSF. The GFDL was released more-or-less unchanged. Since then, a group of Debian people have tried to discuss this with them, and periodically claim that they will have something to report "Real Soon Now", but soon never seems to arrive. Clearly, RMS and the FSF find the objections irrelevant to their goals. That's fine, BTW: they have made a license that meets their goals. If those goals agree with yours, the use the GFDL. But what I disapprove of is the use of "Free" in the license title; it is NOT equivalent to the meaning of "Free" as used in the GPL, because there things you can do with GPL code that you cannot do with GFDL documents. Having two meanings for "free" is bad enough, adding a third doesn't help anything.
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What is the Debian situation Posted Mar 27, 2007 21:19 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] Why bother? Well, people who complained about FSF's responsiveness in the GFDL process have praised their responsiveness in the GPLv3 process, so maybe something changed.
What is the Debian situation Posted Mar 27, 2007 21:43 UTC (Tue) by vmole (guest, #111) [Link] I will be pleasantly surprised if this turns out to be the case. Pure speculation: RMS wanted a license for "his" (FSF) documents that would prevent people from removing the propaganda[1] and (re-)publishing only the technical bits, and doesn't care if anyone else uses it. Thus the lack of response to other's concerns. OTOH, he wants/needs the GPL3 to be widely adopted, and thus is being more flexible. [1] FWIW, I'm pretty much in agreement with his argumements. I'd have picked a less loaded term than "propaganda" if I could come up with one.
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