Re: [libreplanet-discuss] The FSF Allows No Derivatives,

[Mike Gerwitz]

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On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 20:40:13 -0500, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
>> The FSF's idea is that if people are allowed to modify works of
>> opinion, they are going to distort it and misrepresent the original
>> author(s). The FSF claims that this is the only possible reason one
>> could have for modifying a work of opinion, which is nonsense.
>
> Where has the FSF claimed this? I'd like to read the evidence for this
> claim for myself.

Misrepresentation was stated; I'm not sure about the rest of it.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html#opinions

  "To modify them is to misrepresent the authors; so modifying these
  works is not a socially useful activity. And so verbatim copying is
  the only thing that people really need to be allowed to do."

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#OpinionLicenses

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