Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Hyperbola: Other "Information for practical use" under a free license

[bill-auger]

Citing from: https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:main:social_contract

> Hyperbola is free culture: All documentation and
> cultural works included in Hyperbola are free
> culture, with the exceptions of: works stating a
> viewpoint, invariant sections and cover texts. All
> documentation and cultural works created by or for
> Hyperbola are free culture, with no exceptions.

and yes that could not be more clear - this is explicitly making an
exception to "free culture" in order to allow GDFL documentation - and
saying that any documentation that is made specifically for the
hyperbola project will be free culture and presumably with no such
invariant sections

TBH just as a side note, that precise wording seems to be implying
something that was perhaps not intended - the intention here seems quite
clearly to be nothing other than to allow for GFDL licensed
documentation - the phrases: "works stating a viewpoint, invariant
sections and cover texts" are taken straight from the GFDL definition -
but in this context they imply that the hyperbola project would not ever
be allowed to state any "viewpoint" because all hyperbola documentation
is promised to be under a "free culture" license, with no exceptions;
but "works stating a viewpoint" are stated explicitly here to be not
"free culture" - perhaps that was intended - personally, i would applaud
any software project that is dedicated to *not* expressing personal
orthogonal "viewpoints"

i must say that the hyperbola social contract is written remarkably well
in that way as to avoid any normative language - even the section about
social behavior is fully prescriptive without being opinionated or
judgmental

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