On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Imran Ghory wrote:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, 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?
To ensure freedom to redistribute.
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.
This is starting to not make sense..How can having something more
restrictive possibly enhance freedom to redistribute?
A simpler example: GPL, GPL is more restrictive than public domain but
enhances freedom to redistribute.
The sections added to the GNU FDL document have
nothing to do with "fair
use"; they are original work.
You misunderstand, I wsa trying to give an example which the "fair
use" doctrine could be used to exploit the GNU FDL. I could write a
document on my computer and then incorporate parts of that document as
"fair use" into the GNU FDL articles, no-one else would then be able to
modify those sections as they wouldn't be licenced under the GNU FDL.
Imran
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