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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Debian, KDE and the GFDL problem
From:       Alejandro Exojo <suy () kurly ! org>
Date:       2006-01-08 11:25:02
Message-ID: 200601081225.03084.suy () kurly ! org
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El Sábado, 7 de Enero de 2006 22:55, Brad Hards escribió:> On Sunday 08 \
January 2006 01:43 am, Michael Pyne wrote:> > Huh?  From the section in \
question [1], a distribution can state in the> > Opaque copy where the \
Transparent copy can be obtained by a member of the> > network-using \
public, using public-standard network protocols.  The> > distribution also \
needs to make reasonably prudent steps to ensure that> > the Transparent \
copy is available there one year after the Opaque copy is> > no longer \
distributed.  But nowhere does it say the end-user must have> > the \
Transparent copy if they have the Opaque.>> There is no point in trying to \
argue about this from a logical point of> view.  Why?
> "Gnu FDL isn't free" is a matter of belief amongst the more fervent > \
> members of the Debian community. However it is their choice what they \
> ship.
I'm not a Debian Developer, but I can consider myself a member of the \
community, because I use it, I like it, and I try to help as much as I can. \
I don't think is a matter of "belief". I'm not a lawyer, but after reading \
the license, I really think that some parts of the license are just \
ambiguous or unclear, and this can lead to legal problem in some countries. \
As Isaac explained, the "verbatim copying" section is problematic, because \
I can be breaking the license if I put the document in a password protected \
intranet, or attach it in a encrypted email. And this is just because that \
part is written in a brief way, without specifying details that might be \
important. I don't think that the license isn't free in spirit, of course.
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