Imran Ghory wrote:
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?
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.
What's that got to do with invariant sections? What you're describing is modifying an FDL document to make a derivative work. The GNU FDL requires that derivative works be released under the FDL. Therefore, the new "fair use" sections would be part of a document released under the FDL. They don't need to be invariant sections in order for this to work; OTC, if they're included as invariant sections, then they can*not* be modified.
-- Toby