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Re: Anton's amendment



On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:42:49PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:21:58AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
> > 
> > It seems to me that there an awful lot of potential *practical*
> > problems with invariant sections in documents.
> > 
> > They may contain outdated, narrow, or even dangerous advice or
> > code examples.  For example: code fragments written against
> > obsolete APIs in other packages, scripts which work with standard
> > dev but not with udev, or insecure methods of temp file creation.
> 
> GFDL doesn't allow these to be part of an invariant section.

Of course it does. If you write a text about literature, and release it
under the GPL, then your invariant section could explain how the set of
scripts that did the typesetting of the text was written.

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  -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4



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