Jeff Law wrote:
Isn't one of the specific instances of this issue the desire to copy
some of the constraints information from the source, which would need to
go into the user manual rather than internals documentation?
And in some cases a function index with documentation may be precisely
what the end-user needs -- think runtime libraries.
These cases both seem to fall within the four-test fair use guidlines
to me, and I can't imagine any of the relevant copyright holders seeing
otherwise.
What's concerning is how much time we've got to spend discussing this
kind of issue rather than getting real work done, all due to a license
that is insanely controversial.
I would not worry about that, people like to spend time on this kind of
discussion, or they would not do it :-)