Re: Documentation on the command-line?

[Bob Proulx]

Robert Thorpe wrote:
> Emanuel Berg writes:
> > Yeah, what is the reason?
> 
> Most free-software/open-source licenses require someone passing on the
> code to pass on the license. The GNU Free Documentation License als
> requires them to include a little essay by RMS.  The Debian maintainers
> objected to that and labeled GFDL a "non-free" license.  There was a
> kerfuffle about it a few years ago.

Not quite.  The main problem was Invariant Sections.  That was
specifically the problem with the Emacs documentation.

Rather than summarize let me refer you to the official statement of
why the GFDL is considered to be a non-free license.  Then I will
avoid errors in paraphrasing.

  http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001

Bob