Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

[Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>]

Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:

> 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).

Fair use *is* a range of delineated uses you're allowed to make
of copyrighted works without the author's permission.  Whether
that's called "fair use" or something else in Australia isn't
important.
-- 
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 as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history
 of the hacker subculture."
--Neal Stephenson


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