On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:48:03 +0000, MJ Ray said:
Apart from the bit which is slightly off the current topic, but could be relevant for future topics! If I staple a program to a dead squirrel and the copyright licence says every copy must be linked to a dead squirrel, is it free software?
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.
Has it stopped? Anyone got an announcement? I missed it.
I am not sure whether there has been an announcement but the GNU Press project is at least dormant since Opus had to leave the FSF.
Only for limited purposes, which vary from country to country. In general, it's not legal to do so.
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.
So GPL for reference manuals would be fine by you?
According to RMS, reference manuals are useless ;-)
Shalom-Salam,
Werner