On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:31:20PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Now, I'd like to download this (translated) manual and place it on a > portable device I own, so I can easily read it without killing a bunch > of trees. I think this is clearly a useful modification, and I think > that I should be able to do this for a DFSG-free work. > > But, there is a problem: My portable device understands only ASCII, or > maybe ISO-8859-1 if I'm lucky (at least in the US, this is pretty > common). It doesn't understand UTF-8, Shift-JIS, etc. It is not > technically possible to keep the Japanese invariant section. > > I believe this gives a notable, practicle reason why invariant sections > are not free.
you zealot freaks have no qualms about lying, do you? 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. there are no jack-booted FSF storm-troopers ready to kick down your door because you didn't copy an invariant section to your own PDA. nor even any trained attack-lawyers. the GFDL does not restrict personal use as you are trying to imply that it does. craig 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. or, similarly, that because YOU can't read Japanase (or some other non-english language) that foreign language documents are non-free. -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (part time cyborg) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
