My concerns about GPLv3 process
Alfred M. Szmidt
ams at gnu.org
Wed Feb 1 15:33:17 UTC 2006
We have seen similar things in the past. For example the "GPLed"
version of PGP 2 which had two additional restrictions, one was
that the long text file with the crypto political background must
accompany all distributions of PGP. Clearly that was non-free but
something which can easily be done with the GFDL.
Because PGP was software, not documentation. Such a clause would be
prefectly ok for free documentation.
For example a book on networks might want to include the OOB-Data
text from glibc. With 48 lines (w/o the example) it is clearly
beyond fair use.
You can ask the FSF to make a execption for examples. This makes
sense, and I doubt anyone would object.
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