Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Hyperbola evaluation

[Luke Shumaker]

On Sun, 13 May 2018 04:03:33 -0400,
Michael Dorrington wrote:
> 
> On 12/05/18 17:49, Benoît wrote:
> 
> > # Other "Information for practical use" under a free license
> > NOTES: Hyperbola contains in the amendments "Hyperbola is free software"
> > and "Hyperbola is free culture" from its social contract [1] the commitment
> > to not include or recommend non-free software or documentation.
> 
> 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".

The actual text of the Hyperbola Social Contract reads:

| 2. Hyperbola is free culture: All documentation and cultural works
|    included in Hyperbola are free culture, with the exceptions of:
|    works stating a viewpoint, invariant sections and cover
|    texts. All documentation and cultural works created by or for
|    Hyperbola are free culture, with no exceptions.

That is: It makes an exception for GFDL invariant sections.

That language is borrowed from the Parabola Social Contract.  The
Parabola version includes hyperlinks to gnu.org, clarifying that
"invariant sections" and "cover texts" refers to the GFDL (I have
indicated the links in markdown syntax):

| 2. Parabola is Free Culture: All documentation and cultural works
|    included in products of the Parabola project are [Free
|    Culture][1], with the exceptions of: [works stating a
|    viewpoint][2], [invariant sections][3] and [cover texts][4]. All
|    documentation and cultural works created by or for Parabola are
|    Free Culture, with no exceptions.
|
| [1]: https://freedomdefined.org/Definition
| [2]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpinionLicenses
| [3]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt#SEC1
| [4]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt#SEC2

I can't speak as to why the Hyperbola team didn't include the links in
their version.

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~ Luke Shumaker