Imran Ghory wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
>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?
Otherwise someone could take a GNU FDL document add
sections to it, and
claim that the additions were taken under "fair use" from another
document, now if someone else comes along who wants to modify the
additions they wouldn't be able to as the new "fair use" sections
wouldn't
be governed by GNU FDL.
What's that got to do with invariant sections?
What you're describing is modifying an FDL document to make a derivative work.
The GNU FDL requires that derivative works be released under the FDL.
Therefore, the new "fair use" sections would be part of a document
released under the FDL. They don't need to be invariant sections
in order for this to work; OTC, if they're included as invariant sections,
then they can*not* be modified.
-- Toby