lynx-dev Re: Referring to non-free documentation for non-free software

[Kim DeVaughn]

On Mon, Feb 01, 1999, David Combs (address@hidden) said:
|
| > So I rewrote the text as follows:
| >
| >  A GNU program should not recommend use of any non-free program, and it
| >  should not refer the user to any non-free documentation for free
| >  software.  The need for free documentation to go with free software is
| >  now a major focus of the GNU project; to show that we are serious
| >  about the need for free documentation, we must not contradict our
| >  position by recommending use of documentation that isn't free.

| QUESTION: in your rewritten text, those "should not" pairs;
| do you mean "may not", or "should not"?

| Or MAYBE you WANT to keep it ambiguous?  (Thus leaving it up to
| a judge to decide what the intent was?)

Perhaps it all depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is ... :-) ...

/kim

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