Craig Sanders wrote: > don't be an idiot. you only have to keep the invariant sections if you > are DISTRIBUTING a copy. you can do whatever you want with your own > copy.
Well, creating modified versions of a copyrighted work requires the permission of the copyright holder. In some countries this modification may count as fair use or equivelant. In countries where it doesn't, I quote the GFDL: "In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version: [...] L. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document, unaltered in their text and in their titles" Further, I have always considered having the right to help my neighbors an important part of free software. If I can't distribute my modified version to my neighbor, it's not free software. > ps: according to your bogus argument, that also means any non > US-ASCII/iso-8859-1 document is non-free simply because you can't use it > on some common PDAs in the US. what an asinine assertion. That would be an asinine assertion. Good thing I never made it. If the license says that the document may not be translated to ASCII, that'd be non-free. That's what I said. Nothing more. > or, similarly, > that because YOU can't read Japanase (or some other non-english > language) that foreign language documents are non-free. I am completely baffled as to how you come to this conclusion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
