Merritt L. Perkins wrote:
I am confused by the discussions of,” Fair Use”. What
does the term
mean? What are they talking about?
If I describe an automobile as “ A motor vehicle for transporting
people." you know that it is not an advertising sign or some kind of
computer program. You can proceed to add more details.
Does” Fair Use” mean the use that a program is intended for; the use
that a person can properly make of a program?
What does the acronym GFDL stand for?
This was dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 Preferred and read
by Jennifer.
Merritt L. Perkins
------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Wikipedia-l mailing list
Wikipedia-l(a)Wikipedia.org
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
Given that this is a mailing list used to discuss the matters which
arise on a free /encyclopaedia/ I don't think it's remiss of me to say
you should perhaps look these terms up first? Since you're using a
speech recognition program, I'll presume you require it, and that
entering individual URLs may be difficult; I have a bookmarklet set in
mozilla (
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=%s&go=Go) which
allows me to type "wiki term I wish to look up"; this brings me directly
to the page, if one exists under that title, otherwise it brings me to
the search page. Using this I find:
The *fair use* doctrine <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine> is a
body of law <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law> and court decisions
<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_decision> which provide limitations
and exceptions to copyright
<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitations_and_exceptions_to_copyright>.
and:
The *GNU Free Documentation License* (GFDL) is a copyleft
<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft> license for free content
<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content>, designed by the Free
Software Foundation
<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation> (FSF) for the
GNU <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU> project.