[Wikipedia-l] Copyright violations

[Imran Ghory]

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.

Imran
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