[Wikipedia-l] Copyright violations

Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia at math.ucr.edu
Wed Oct 30 18:56:59 UTC 2002


Imran Ghory wrote:

>My understanding of the GNU FDL is that we can't incorporate "fair
>use" material unless we implictly declare those sections as "Invariant
>Sections".

What!? how could this possibly be?
Why would the GNU FDL be stricter than ordinary copyright law?
If I quote a line from a biography of Winston Churchill
in my own FDL biography, why must that be invariant?
This doesn't make any sense to me.


-- Toby



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