Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Prior to GFDL, GNU Manuals used to have the same kinds of restrictions > like invariant sections but noone has ever battled for moving them > to non-free. Then came GFDL and people suddenly decided to change > the "de facto" rules. This is the kind of consistency I'm talking > about (whether invariant sections should be allowed or not).
Debian was mostly unaware of the existence of these invariant sections, and the problem had not been greatly discussed. I was aware of it, but at the time I still believed that the GFDL passed the DFSG.