Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Hyperbola: Other "Information for practical use" under a free license

[bill-auger]

> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 09:03:33AM +0100, Michael Dorrington wrote:
>> If Hyperbola is Free Culture then it won't be including the Emacs manual
>> nor the GCC manual nor anything else under GFDL with "invariant
>> sections".


On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 09:31:49AM +0100, Michael Dorrington wrote:
> Because they are not under Free Culture licences
> the FSF simple don't believe
> that all their (or anyone else's) works should be under Free Culture
> licences and it is isn't a requirement of the FSDG.


as far as i understand the intentions of the FSDG, both of those
statements are correct; yet there is no conflict - the GFDL may be in
conflict with the notion of "free culture"; but the FSDG does not
require the GNU manuals (nor any documentation) to be present - the GFDL
only requires that *if* the manuals are distributed, then the invariant
sections may not be modified

free culture is optional and orthogonal to free software and the FSDG
makes no prescriptions regarding it other than that everything must be
freely distributable under some license that the FSF deems as
appropriate for that class of data

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