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Debian GNU/Linux to Declare GNU GFDL non-Free?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the read-those-licenses dept.

Syntaxis writes "There's some considerable argy-bargy in progress over whether or not GNU's own GFDL is a Free documentation license at all. At issue are "invariant sections" which cannot be removed from derivative works. Check out the thread culminating in the proposed motion to take action. The current consensus on Debian-legal does indeed appear to be that one of the FSF's own licenses is non-Free under the terms of the Debian Free Software Guidelines! Well, documentation for GPLed projects countermanding the very freedoms embodied in the GPL certainly seems insane to me."

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  1. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!!!

    1. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      last post!!!!!!!!!

    2. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No it's not!!!!!!!!

    3. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You actually can get a last post. Look for an article that's almost two weeks old. If there are just a few hours remaining until the discussion gets archived, chances are no one will be there to mod you down.

  2. Re:Feral Robot Dog? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what and the System of a Down CD "Steel This CD"

  3. DEATH to debian. RedHat is ok. Microsoft ROCKS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    DEATH to debian

    Who wants that piece of CRAP

    If you really have to stick with opencrap, go, RedHat is better and more American.

    Why would you losers hang to these opensource CRAP

    Microsoft products are the best

    Want Proof

    How long does it take to set up a Windows system?
    Compare that to the opencrap system.
    With intuitive grafical interface setting up a Windows system is a breeze. setting up an opencrap system is HELL

    How many hardware is supported by your opencrap systems
    ubs, FireWire, PDAs and cuttingedge hardware are all NOT supported by opencrap, but is beautifully supported by Windows and setting up these are a breeze.

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  4. Re:Debian has some weird licencing rules. by Mendax+Veritas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And what's more, you have to build everything yourself from source! Just think, only three days of heavy CPU and disk usage for each major KDE upgrade!

  5. Re:Who the fuck cares? Lunix is GAY. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn, the quality of trolls around here has really gone through the floor since the classic days of OOG the Open-Source Caveman and the Glorious MEEPT!!!, not to mention hot grits and Natalie Portman NAKED AND PETRIFIED.

  6. Re:Who the fuck cares? Lunix is GAY. by TheRaven64 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Lunix is GAY.

    No, I really don't think so. There's nothing at all gay about Linux. It works with almost any other OS out there, so you can't be referring to its, uh, interface preferences. I think you'll find that a well developed fashion sense is an attribute traditionally associated with homosexuality, and Linux definitely doesn't have that.

    I think it would be more accurate so say that Mac OS X is gay. It clearly wins in the fashion stakes, and expresses a strong preference for interfacing with others of the same type (which is not to say it won't interface with others...).

    Windows seems to be trying really hard to be gay, but failing. It doesn't want to interface with anything other than windows (often even not other versions) and it looks as if it's seen Mac OS and wants you be like it, but just can't afford anything newer than last season's UI.

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  7. Grinding, grinding, grinding... by edinho · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    my axe. Tra-la-la-la-la.