Re: Anton's amendment
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:
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.
This is a frequent operation one might want to do (think doc strings,
after all).
Thomas
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