Re: Anton's amendment
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:30:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> writes:
>
> > The modifications that are permited by GFDL are enough to make useful
> > modifications, that is to adapt the document and to improve it. Yes,
> > you can not do whatever you whish but this is not necessarily the
> > right interpretation of DFSG.
>
> For many purposes it is quite useful to be able to remove invariant
> sections. This has been pointed out to RMS, and on debian-legal, a
> bazillion times. I will recite one such case:
So far all examples of this kind I have been given are either
prohibited by some other free license or do not realy require the
invariant sections to be removed.
> If I want to reproduce only one small part of a GFDLd manual which has
> invariant sections, then I can only do so if I reproduce all the
> invariant sections, which can be quite large, in comparison to the few
> paragraphs I wish to copy from the text.
If you want to copy only few paragraphs that would be fear use and you
don't have to follow GFDL.
If you want to copy more than few paragraphs in quantity (more than
100 copies) you have reproduce the invariant sections. This doesn't
prohibit your right to copy, it only adds some inconvenience. (I am
not talking here for extremely large invariant sections, such sections
would probably make the document non-free).
> This is a frequent operation one might want to do (think doc strings,
> after all).
Sorry, I don't understand what "think doc strings" means.
Anton Zinoviev
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