Re: GFDL and cover texts
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jordi_Guti=E9rrez_Hermoso?= <jordigh@gmail.com> wrote:
> The position statement and the vote all conflate invariant sections
> with cover texts and dedications as if exactly the same arguments
> against invariant sections applied to a cover text like "a gnu
> manual". Why are three words enough to make thousands upon thousands
> of words nonfree?
They are a similar problem to invariant sections (can prevent
distribution in some cases) but of a smaller scale and scope.
I struggled to understand this aspect until the pickle-passing example:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/07/msg00104.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/07/msg00163.html
which I summarised in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/03/msg00098.html
Hope that helps,
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