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Re: GFDL/GPL issues

From: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:03:17 -0700
Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues
References: <4BFC6EF0.4090908@codesourcery.com> <1274937022.3572.101.camel@glinka> <E1OHfgS-00074s-Hm@fencepost.gnu.org>

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

> It should be noted that Debian considers the GFDL a non-free
> /software/ license; which it is, but then the GFDL is not a software
> license to begin with.

The official Debian position is that the distinction between a software
license and a non-software license for the sort of material distributed in
Debian is an artificial and meaningless distinction because of, among
other reasons, exactly the use case being discussed in this thread.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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