Re: [Bug-sysutils] #sysutils

[David Weinehall]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:35:20PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    Any submissions of documentation to Sysutils that isn't GPL
>    compatible (which the GFDL isn't) will be dropped.
> 
> Not accepting documentation that is licensed under the offical license
> for documentation is not acceptable in a GNU project.  That it is or
> isn't GPL compatible is not relevant, the GPL is intended for source
> code while the GFDL is intended for documentation.

Well, it's totally unfitting for documentation, since it requires the
entire license to be included in every piece of document.  Now explain
to me how you'd make a manual page without having it grow 20-30 times
because of the included GFDL...

And having to dual license a code example in a manual page to make
people able to use it in their code without violating the license
is just insane.

If you really feel it to be necessary, I will accept submissions of
info pages licensed under the GFDL, since I won't touch them
(neither as a developer nor as a user) anyway.  But the manualpages
becomes *useless* with the GFDL blurb attached at the bottom.

> By being a GNU maintainer you have agreed, post-fact, or pre-fact, to
> follow the GNU policies.  If you do not like the policies, you do not
> go and change them yourself, you talk to the head of the GNU project
> to get them changed.

So, would that be RMS?


Regards: David
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