Georg C. F. Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > || Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> br> Your analysis ignores the fact that the GNU FDL does not permit > br> Invariant Sections to be omitted entirely from the work when it > br> is redistributed. If the GNU FDL did that, it would take a giant > br> step towards DFSG-freeness. > > B. Or do you mean it doesn't allow cutting out sections that the > author previously defined as important and invariant? > > Interpretation B -- which you probably meant -- is already included in > the analysis, as cutting out parts is also modification. If I write a GUI front-end for some software which has documentation under this license, can I take a few paragraphs of the documentation to use under my "help" menu without including invariant sections? If not, then that's very onerous. I might need to include 2 pages of unrelated stuff to get my help menu text. Oh wait, my GUI front-end is GNU Emacs, which is GPL'ed. This license is not GPL-compatible so I can't merge the documentation, can I? Peter
