On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:59:38PM +0200, David Schmitt wrote: > On Thursday 14 April 2005 22:32, Adam McKenna wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:17:12PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Now imagine someone who's doing a study on available algorithms for > > > Fourier transforms, and wants to pick out parts of the text in the > > > invariant section to write his paper. > > > > It seems that he could do this with a simple footnote or end note > > referencing the document in question. > > > > You can do that with copyrighted text that gives you no rights at all. So > > I'm not sure why you couldn't also do it with text licensed under the GFDL. > > Indeed. But this obviously then is no "free" work. Why should Debian want to > distribute that in main?
I'm not sure what you're asking, but the point was that you don't need the author's permission, or a license, to use quotes or cite portions of a text in another work. I can go to a library and look in books and use information from those books to write a paper. I can do the same thing with a document that has been released under the GFDL. If you're suggesting that in order to write a paper with citations from a GFDL work I'd need to include the invariant sections in my paper, I don't agree with that. You only need to include the invariant sections if you make a modified version of the original work. I don't see how you could claim that this applies to citations in a paper about a related subject. --Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
