Re: Voila! A compromise!

[Jason Williams <jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:08:05AM -0400, Sandy Harris wrote:
> Poet/Joshua Drake wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > 
> > >    If you guys think it's ok, that would be the best idea :
> > >     - non free : any license permitting that we redistribute freely the
> > >       document (ex opl a+b)
> > >     - ldp : gfdl or opl -a -b only
> > >
> > >I think that segregating the existing non-free documents would be a
> > >very good idea.  You could continue to distribute them, but those
> > >of us for whom they are unacceptable would be able to shun them.
> > >Meanwhile, it would give new contributors a very clear message
> > >to make their work free.
> > 
> > So,
> > 
> > Is there anyone who has a problem with this?
> 
> Yes. The segregation, like the Howto/minHowto split, will complicate
> finding and indexing things. It also restricts authors, in my view
> unnecessarily.

I don't think there's any reason not to have one big list in addition
to the segregated lists...

For the HTML indexes, this is trivial, and for the "filesystem version"
perhaps I could suggest symlinks (again)?

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