Re: Final Draft: Interpretive Guideline regarding DFSG clause 3
>> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
> 1) A copyright holder is permitted to (withhold permission to modify or
> remove) (copyright notices) upon a work, or parts of a work, under
Parentheses indicate the way I'm parsing this. Am I wrong? This
concerns to "copyright notices", right?
> 2) A copyright holder is permitted to (withhold permission to modify or
> remove) (license texts) which apply to a work, or to a substantively
and "license texts".
> 3) Works licensed under the GNU FDL meet the DFSG if:
> A) there are no Invariant Sections[*]; or
> [*] Cover Texts are not affected
from the two statements above, I don't see how 3.A) follows. In
particular, AFAIUI, I can declare the documentation for a protocol as
invariant. That isn't covered by neither 1) nor 2) but yet it's not
being allowed by 3.A). What am I reading wrong?
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