On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Toby Bartels wrote:
Imran Ghory wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
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.
That's the whole problem we can't release "fair use" material under the GNU FDL as we're not legally capable of allowing people to modify the "fair use" material. The only way to satisfy the legal requirements is for us (a) to declare all "fair use" material as invariant section or (b) not use any "fair use" material.
We don't have to allow them to modify the fair use material, they can modify it anyway! One can *ordinarily* modify fair use, just as I modified Dr. X's statement when I wrote about Churchill.
Example: (ignoring tm issues)
Take for instance a box cover of some disney movie involving Mickey Mouse, if the box cover was under GNU FDL people could modify the picture and use it for whatever they want, however if instead it was under "fair use" regulation it could be used solely for purposes relating to that movie. Thus "fair use" is non-compatible with the GNU FDL.
However seeing as this arguement doesn't seem to be going anywhere I think we should request a decision on the issue from the FSF.
Imran