On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Toby Bartels wrote:
Speaking only for text, you'd have an ethical (and, quite possibly, a legal) obligation to leave the quotation as-is; otherwise you're saying someone said something they did not.
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.
Yes it would be, as Invariance only make a specific section non-modifiable, it does not stop you from deleting the invariant section and replacing with an equivalent statement.
Imran