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Re: GFDL GR: Amendment: no significant invariant sections in main



On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:58:14AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:14:22PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:22:11 +0900, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> said:
> > 
> > [...]
> > >  GFDL blah, blah,...
> > > Invariant section being following comment section in SGML
> > > <!--
> > >   chapter 1: author1_name name1@isp.dom
> > >   chapter 2: author2_name name2@isp.dom
> > > -->
> > [...]
> 
> Hmmm... my example may have been confusing.
>  
> > This cannot be an invariant section as defined by the GFDL, because the
> > GFDL says that an invariant section must be a secondary section, and a
> > secondary section must be a named appendix.  A source comment is not a
> > named appendix.
> 
> You are talking "Invariant Sections" (capitalized) in GFDL.  I, also
> Adeodato Simó I think, use lower case "invariant section(s)" which is
> combination of "Invariant Sections, Cover Texts, Acknowledgements, and
> Dedications" being "invariant sections" which suffer restriction in GFDL
> 4 MODIFICATIONS.

Mmmm... I meant:

You are talking "Invariant Sections" (capitalized) in GFDL.  I, also
Adeodato Simó I think, use lower case "invariant section(s)" which is
combination of "Invariant Sections, Cover Texts, Acknowledgements, and
Dedications".  The "invariant sections" suffer restriction in GFDL
4 MODIFICATIONS.

> > Such a document would have to be licensed under a license other than the
> > GFDL.
> > That said, I understand the motivation of Osamu's proposal, and I would
> > consider invariant comments to be more acceptable than invariant
> > portions of the documentation.  (Of course, the line again gets a bit
> > blurred when you consider documentation generated from the comments.)
> 
> That why we need some space for judgement based on each case.  
> 
> > But I don't know whether I would consider it free or not.
> 
> I do not either until I see real case.
> 
> Osamu
> 


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