Re: PROPOSED: interpretive guidelines regarding DFSG 3, modifiability, and invariant text

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

    I think Henning was referring to the case where one wants to use small
    portions of a GNU Manual verbatim.

This is not a very serious issue, since it isn't hard to rewrite a
small amount of text.  You can also refer to it with a hypertext link
instead of copying it.

I don't think there is a real problem here.  It may bother your
sensibilities because of the opinions that you start with, but practically
speaking it is easy to cope with.