Bjoern Schiessle wrote:
Personally i understand both sides. On one side manuals are basically as functional as software, so everyone should have the same freedom for manuals as for software. On the other side we have the GFDL which was afaik mainly written with real books in mind. I can understand when the FSF wants to release their books with a special foreword or a special front- and back cover and i agree that it's not fundamentally necessary that people can change the foreword or the cover of a book.
But GFDL is much stricter (and of course, more complicated) than that. AFAICS, this scenario (which I think can be quite reasonable) can be achieved by "mere aggregation" of free (say, GPL) content plus less-free (say, CC by-nd) foreword, cover texts, etc.
Frank