A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or a front-matter section of the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject (or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly within that overall subject.[...]
Personally, I don't mind that - regardless of amount. I can't stick my 1000-page Great Lesbian Post-American Novel in there (well, if it were non-variant I couldn't), but I can write about "Why I wrote this manual" or give thanks and dedications to dear friends. Being able to drop them would be good (I agree with RMS when he says that a hyperlink is often adequate and I would like to add that quoting large sections of text all over the place gets tired real fast. How many times do you want those emacs keybindings to be repeated already? - But, on the other hand; the more freedom the better, so if I'd ever write invariant sections, I'd probably make 'em "droppable"). On the third hand, I don't mind using stuff from non-free from time to time if it's free enough 'for me'. (E.g, I wouldn't use Netscape but I might use the Emacs manual, even if it lived in non-Free.) Which means that any limit (bytecount or proportional) Branden or anyone else would propose, /even zero/, would be perfectly acceptable to me personally. (Though, I'm not the emacs maintainers. They might think otherwise.) Conclusion: I agree with and second the final draft; and I would agree with more permissive guideline as well. Wishing everyone had an enjoyable afflux last week (or whenever), Sunnanvind
