On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:37:53PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > to be stretching the purpose of a Secondary Section. Or is the FSF's > intent to permit people to use the GNU FDL to protect a 3-page reference > card for some program, accompanied by a 100-page novella which begins, > "It was a dark and stormy night..."?, and mark the latter Invariant so > that no one can remove it?
The intent, although IMO abusable, is to give the author a chance to make a statement, but continue to allow derivative works of all the actual relevant material. This is seen in a small degree in the GPL itself, which requires a copy of itself to be included in GPL'd works, and itself includes a preamble of text that we might term 'invariant' by FDL terms. > see anything wrong with me piggybacking my very large and sorry attempt > at the Great American Novel on some documentation I may have written for, > say, the SDL library, and using the GNU FDL to do it? Agreed. Debian is in a great position of being able to attach a policy to the use of a license as well, however. FDL + some policy, whether that be Branden's suggestion, or a specific set of guidelines on what may or may not be in the invariant sections, seems a good way to go. We should be at least a little cognizant of the work that has gone into the FDL, from both a legal and philosophical standpoint. -drew -- M. Drew Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Free Standards Group (freestandards.org) co-founder, SourceForge.net | core team, freedb | sysadmin, Linux Intl. creator, keyanalyze report | maintnr, *.us.pgp.net | other, see freedom/law
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