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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again
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Tom Lord |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:21:34 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
> > Well, what is _your_ definition of "free", since you think it is
> > applicable as a touchstone which must be used to test any FSF
> > licensee?
> Here it is:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> Clear, precise, and decidedly acceptable. Minus the hippie stuff, it's
> the first test usually applied to any license under review to test
> whether it is free enough for Debian (the DFSG is essentially this
> written more explicitly, plus some pragmatic restrictions).
> RMS has acknowledged that the GFDL is not free under this definition.
But that definition applies to _software_. The freedoms enumerated
directly pertain to software (for example, you can not "run"
documentation).
Would you apply the definition in that essay to a political essay? or
to a musical recording? If so, can you elaborate on the analogy you
have in mind and why it is a good idea? Oh, and, yes, manuals, too.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Andrew Suffield, 2004/03/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Andrew Suffield, 2004/03/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Andrew Suffield, 2004/03/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, James Blackwell, 2004/03/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Cameron Patrick, 2004/03/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Tom Lord, 2004/03/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Andrew Suffield, 2004/03/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/03/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Andrew Suffield, 2004/03/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, James Blackwell, 2004/03/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Tom Lord, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Tom Lord, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Robert Collins, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/03/22