I'm sure this thread is killfiled/filtered by most by now, so I'll keep to points of information:
"Alfred M. Szmidt" ams@gnu.org
Did I claim that you did? No. You implied it on the other hand.
I am not to blame for what you read between the lines of my emails.
Only if you stop cluttering the list with abusrd lies.
TTBOMK, I have not lied. Your request is like "do you still deny that you beat children?"
If you wish to know what happened, please ask the Savannah hackers. You have obviously not done so, and instead of doing this, you went on a personal crusade without knowing what actually happened.
I did ask. Of course people are reluctant to admit errors. The usual tactic is to apply pressure while offering a good solution that doesn't make them admit any mistakes. Usually, I care more about the future than the past.
This isn't the first time you do this.
Indeed. Nothing to be ashamed of. My estimates are often good.
It's far from obvious to me why I should allow the BNP or whoever to print updated copies of a manual and forbid recipients from removing their manifesto from it, as FDL use would permit.
This is clearly written at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html
Not clearly. The justification there is mostly RMS's arbitrary and inconsistent beliefs and that's not enough. I think http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-gfdl.html is more the reasons, but my work is not for sale to the BNP for that low price.
And you can use the GPL if you would like to, just like with licensing your work under the GPL. [...]
Can you use the GPL alone? It's my understanding that would be forbidden by the planned policy change.
Please ask the Savannah hackers.
I have. You're contradicting them. Why?
If the FDL's not buggy, why do you refer to its problems in another email today?
Please stop claiming things I didn't even imply. You have on a repeated basis invented claims. It is silly, please stop it. You were answering to a sentence where I wrote something along the lines of `The GFDL does not have the problems that you claim it to have'. The GFDL does have problems, but none of which you claim it to have.
And you wrote that to object to me calling the FDL a known-buggy licence, so I concluded that you believed it has no known bugs.
TTBOMK, I have not invented claims. Please stop making wild unsubstantiateable allegations all the time.