"Alfred M. Szmidt" ams@gnu.org
You are starting a snowball effect without knowing the story.
No, I only describe what's happened, to the last place I read good news about the FDL problems.
First of all, did it occur to you maybe that someone simply made a simple mistake?
Yes, and if that's the case, I'd hope someone would set me straight swiftly. Do you have any evidence that the recent changes to http://savannah.gnu.org/faq/?group_id=5802&question=Project_-_How_to_get... and this rejection are all mistakes of one person? I can't see how to get the editor details of the FAQ, but presumably all the Savannah team get to see the change when it happens.
You claim that there seems to be a change of policy, please back that up.
There are Savannah-hosted projects (including GNU software) which use GPL for documentation. I hope that you can understand why I'm not going to name them today: it is painful to transfer hosting away from Savannah (export is still incomplete).
Sebastian Wieseler seems the keenest promoter of FDL among the project reviewers, but can you see for yourself in the tracker that his messages about it have recently changed from a suggestion to an instruction. If it really is all his doing, hopefully other savannah-hackers will speak out and rethink how much unreviewed action one person can take.
Bluely,