Re: A clarification for my interpretation of GFDL
Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> wrote:
> I'll try to list the examples I can remember.
>
> Category 1. GFDL prohibits some particular use of the document but
> some other free license also prohibits this use.
>
> This category includes:
>
[...[
> 2. Compilation works. Such works are based on many different
> documents and as a result the volume of all invariant sections for
> the resulting document can be too big. However DFSG accept as free
> some licenses that prohibit any compilation works.
You're talking about the patch clause? Many others have, IMO
convincingly, explained why a patch clause does not prohibit to combine
two or more works.
> Category 2. GFDL adds some inconvenience for some particular use of
> the document, but it doesn't prohibit this use.
>
> During the previous discussions we agreed that there cases when the
> inconvenience can be prohibitive if you want to give away copies at no
> cost on expensive media. This category includes:
>
[...]
> 3. Embedded device where one has to be economical about the disk
> space. This is only an inconvenience because the user is not
> obliged to install the invariant sections on the device.
How is he not? In other words, how can we distribute the manual to him
without the invariant sections in the package?
> 4. Distribution via expensive media such as SMS. When the document is
> distributed in HTML-format you don't have to put everything in one
> file and the user is not obliged to download all invariant sections
> in order to read one specific short chapter. The same trick can
> work for distribution via SMS. You only have to make sure that all
> components of the document are equaly available.
I'm not sure that the license allows this.
> Category 3. The invariant sections of some hypothetical document are
> so lengthy that they are obstructing the users to really
> excercise the rights they have acorging to GFDL. Such a
> document would be non-free.
What do you mean by this? Which rights specifically?
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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