Re: [Bug-gnupedia]External Links in New Window

[Aaron Swartz]

Tom Chance <address@hidden> wrote:

> But so far as I can see, unless we ditch
> the GNU policy, external links will never be allowed
> on.

Can you point me to the part of the GNU policy that states this? I have
trouble believing that any GNU policy would include such blatant censorship.

In Stallman's announcement, he says:

    On the other hand, many web pages cover material that wouldn't normally
    be included in an encyclopedia--for example, scholarly papers, detailed
    statistical data bases, news reports, fiction and art, extensive
    bibliographies, and catalogs of merchandise. Such pages, regardless of
    whether they are free enough to be in the encyclopedia, are outside its
    scope. They do not represent gaps in the encyclopedia. So there is no
    need to apply the encyclopedia criteria in making links to such pages.

But he seems to be talking about a much stricter definition of encyclopedia
than we are creating.

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