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Stallman's not completely against copyrightStallman's not completely against copyrightPosted Dec 12, 2003 15:55 UTC (Fri) by vmole (guest, #111)In reply to: Stallman's not completely against copyright by emk Parent article: Bob Young writes a letter to Darl
Works of opinion. Stallman--who does a lot of expository writing--sees no need for people to be able to edit other people's opinions. This actually makes Stallman more pro-copyright than the Debian project, which is why Debian is criticizing him for the GFDL. Wrong. We are not criticizing the GFDL because it forbids editing of opinions. The problem with the GFDL is that, through the use of "invariant sections", it promotes (or at least allows) linking of technical documentation with opinion sections (or even other technical docs) in a way that does not allow you to use any of the technical documention without including all of the opinion section(s). For example, you cannot use an example from the GNU gdb manual to document your GUI debugger without including the "Free Software" and "Free Software Needs Free Documentation" sections verbatim alongside it. There are also issues with the requirements for "transparent" vs. "opaque" distribution. FWIW, I'm on the "Free Software" side of things, and agree with at least the general direction of Stallman's opinions and arguments. I still think the GFDL is a bad license, at least if the "invarian sections" part is used.
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