Imran Ghory wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
We don't have to allow them to modify the fair use material, they can modify it anyway! One can *ordinarily* modify fair use, just as I modified Dr. X's statement when I wrote about Churchill.
Take for instance a box cover of some disney movie involving Mickey Mouse, if the box cover was under GNU FDL people could modify the picture and use it for whatever they want, however if instead it was under "fair use" regulation it could be used solely for purposes relating to that movie. Thus "fair use" is non-compatible with the GNU FDL.
I guess that modification isn't really the issue here then, since they could just as badly take the picture unmodified and then use it for unfair purposes in a different context. I guess that the GFDL lets them use our document as they see fit, but they're still responsible for following other laws, such as respecting trademarks and copyrights of other documents. Should it work to point out when we're making fair use of things, so that they will realise that they can't keep just the picture and throw away the rest of the encyclopaedia -- not because of our copyright (with is free under the GFDL), but because of the original?
However seeing as this argument doesn't seem to be going anywhere I think we should request a decision on the issue from the FSF.
That's fair. How do we go about doing that? Just find RMS's email address on their website?
-- Toby