[Fsf-Debian] Silent here

[Kete]

On Sunday, November 25, 2012 09:13:08 AM Bryan Baldwin wrote:
> There is good detail in FSF's published
> published essays of why user's freedoms with documentation is decided
> differently from software, and are kindly linked in Mr. Self's reply.

Jason Self wrote:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html#opinions

In that speech, Richard Stallman said:
> 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.

Creative Commons argues against this reasoning because it is not 
necessary to
lock down your opinions in order to defend yourself from 
misrepresentation.

On Sunday, November 25, 2012 09:13:08 AM Bryan Baldwin wrote:
> I see no reason to treat firmware differently from software.

I do not interpret OdyX as saying we should; I think Didier Raboud is 
saying
if we treated the documentation differently, then that is analogous to
distinguishing firmware from software.

Thanks