Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)
(followups to -legal, please)
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:17:48PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Excerpting is allowed by copyright law under the fair use principle, and
> one need not accept any license governing a work to exercise that right
> to fair use.
Australia, for example, doesn't have a "fair use" principle at
all. (Instead, there are a range of delineated uses you're allowed to
make of copyrighted works without the author's permission).
Cheers,
aj
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