[Wikipedia-l] Copyright violations

[koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com]

Toby wrote:
>As-is to an extent that avoids lying, yes,
>but not to the extent that fixes an invariant section.
>For example, if an original (by Dr. X) said
>"Churchill was a pompous windbag that everybody hated.",
>then I might write "Dr. X wrote "Churchill was a pompous windbag".",
>which is fair use in the context of an encyclopaedia article,
>and release that under the FDL.  Then a derivative FDL encyclopaedia
>should be able to shorten it to "Dr. X called Churchill "a pompous windbag".",
>but that wouldn't be possible if my FDL release classified the quotation
>as an invariant section.

*lightbulb*!

Sorry.  Now I follow you.

kq