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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Freedomware distro
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Michael Dorrington |
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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Freedomware distro |
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Wed, 16 Aug 2017 21:00:07 +0100 |
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On 06/08/17 18:03, Michael Dorrington wrote:
> Interestingly, the "Free System Distributions" include non-free
> documentation such as the Emacs and GCC manuals, which Debian omits
> because they are non-free.
I've been asked why they are non-free. It's because they are licensed
under the GNU Free Documentation License (licence) with Invariant
Sections. For more information see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License#Criticism
https://freedomdefined.org/Licenses#GNU_Free_Documentation_License
M.
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