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Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:19:50 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:27:39 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> What is the purpose of the GFDL? I quote from the licence: "The purpose
> of this License is to make a manual .... "free" in the sense of
> freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and
> redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or
> noncommercially." Since the XEmacs team's freedom here is ineffective,
> the GFDL is, on its own terms, broken.
I think you are taking the ``free'' part too literally. Free Software
or Free Documentation does not necessarily mean that you are ``free''
to do whatever you want with it. For example, the GPL says that your
freedom is limited by the requirement to supply the sources together
with the binary.
So an argument that ``free'' means there are no limitations is an
invalid argument, IMHO. A better argument would be whether the
limitations of freedom imposed by the GFDL are justified by the goals
of the Free Software movement.
- Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Ben Wing, 2004/12/09
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/10
- RE: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Ben Wing, 2004/12/10
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Alan Mackenzie, 2004/12/11
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Stefan Monnier, 2004/12/11
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Karl Fogel, 2004/12/11
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, David Kastrup, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Brian Palmer, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Matthew Mundell, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, David Kastrup, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/12/11
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Karl Fogel, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/12/12