Re: A possible GFDL compromise

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     You have mistaken the objection.  There is no reason to think it would
>     be a small fractional increase, especially since little parts of
>     manuals--single paragraphs even--are useful reusable bits just in the
>     way that single functions of Lisp are.
> 
> Reusing a single paragraph is fair use--you don't need to follow the
> license conditions.

This is not true if we are reusing all the paragraphs, by extensive
reworking and reassembly.  (Say, to manufacture doc strings.)

Thomas