At Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:30:23 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
"Alfred M. Szmidt" ams@gnu.org wrote:
The is the same problem that Debian faces, labeling everything as `free software', and then excluding everything that doesn't fall into that category (like free doucmnetation, free music, etc).
The problem debian faces is that software which is not free software sometimes gets included in the distribution. It's not a new problem. Even if terms such as "free documentation" can be defined in a sane way, debian doesn't currently use them.
I think that if you were to create a sane definition of free documentation, you would get very close to the definition of free software or the DFSG. And the GFDL wouldn't pass such a test either.
For me, one required freedom is to modify the whole document as I see fit. The GFDL currently fails to grant that freedom.
Jeroen Dekkers