Re: Anton's amendment
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:14:12 -0600, Richard Darst <rd1-debian@zgib.net> said:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:31:38AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> [the topic is invariant sections]
>> i challenge any of you zealots to come up with a REAL WORLD, PRACTICAL
>> proof that the GFDL is non-free (and i mean actually non-free, not
>> merely inconvenient. the DFSG does not require convenience, only
>> freedom).
> 1)
> A while back, someone quoted Richard Stallman (not that it's happened
> just once). If that was in anything GFDLed with large invariant
> sections, as philosophical things tend to be, the quote wouldn't have
> been used, since it would make the message too long. Also, the kind
> of quotes relevant to this discussion would be in invariant sections,
> only making things more complicated.
Quoting someone for the purposes of commentary is covered under fair use
(which has been brought up in this discussion before) in the U.S., and I
believe that most other jurisdictions would allow that as well. If it
was not allowed, copyright law would disallow you from using the quote
at all, anyways.
Since this kind of copying is allowed by copyright law, you have
permission to distribute apart from any other license, and so the
conditions of the GFDL do not need to be followed.
(Same goes for your example 2.)
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