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Foolish and unfriendly Debian

Debian's policy is foolish and unfriendly to us. So we do not cater to it. If they don't like the results, they should change the policy.

— RMS [original source] (speaking in context of the Debian GFDL policy)

Debian's policy starts from good motives, but they were too rigid in carrying them out, and reached a foolish conclusion. I wish they would change it, but I can't make them change it.

— RMS [original source]

Couldn't agree more.

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Posted by Bogdan Bivolaru at Mon Jun 16 13:19:55 2008

In which specific examples has GFDL failed.
I am new to the free software world so I do not know exactly what is the Debian GFDL policy.
I know they have made the IceFox browser out of FireFox because of this policy, but nothing more.

Which are its' specific failures?

Posted by Michael Olson at Sun Jul 13 18:17:23 2008

Bogdan, read <http://mwolson.org/web/DebianGFDLDissent.html> for an explanation of what Debian did and why I disapprove of them for doing it.

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