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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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