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