Re: Anton's amendment
Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> writes:
> It does prohibit code reuse, which I think is one of the things under
> discussion here. Code under this license can't be mixed with code under
> the GPL, as I'm sure you're aware. Similarly one could say the GFDL
> does not prohibit modification of the program, merely of *part of the
> manual*.
Again, there is no distinction in Debian between the program and the
manual. We had a vote on that and it passed by a 3:1 margin.
> So would an invariant section that only preserved attribution be free?
> If so, why?
If the invariant section contains only information that we are required by
copyright law to retain anyway, such as the license text or the copyright
statement, then the effect of declaring that section "invariant" is
effectively nil. License provisions that have no practical effect
generally are not considered to have an impact on whether the work is
non-free.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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