[Wikipedia-l] Copyright violations

[Jimmy Wales]

Toby Bartels 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?
> If I quote a line from a biography of Winston Churchill
> in my own FDL biography, why must that be invariant?
> This doesn't make any sense to me.

Well, now I'm confused about this myself.

--Jimbo