Re: Proposed statement wrt GNU FDL
Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>
[GPL preamble]
> > It still contains an invariant section, though it's less severe than the
> > GFDL type, as it can be removed.
> It's nothing special created by the copyright license. Its the general
> rule that you aren't allowed to misrepresent other's beliefs, which is
> what carrying the Preamble to your modified license (especially the
> first two paragraphs), without the FSF's permission, would be.
That could be covered adequately by a you-must-not-misrepresent-me
clause. The current status of the preamble goes much farther than
that. It says that I must not reuse the wordings in the preamble for
composing a text that expresses *my* views on licensing (and makes
clear that they are mine, not the FSF's).
Your argument could be applied to any sort of invariant sections:
Because there is some possible way of modifying this section that
would misrepresent my beliefs, should I not feel morally entitled to
forbid *all* modifications of the section?
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