On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:10:48PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > 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.
There are many jurisdictions without the US's concept of "fair use". Freedoms depending on fair use are not sufficient for Debian--a license with non-free restrictions is not typically considered free because those restrictions are believed to be unenforcable in certain jurisdictions. (It might be claimed that this lack of fair use is a peculiarity of local law, which Debian doesn't usually concern itself with, but I'm under the general impression that "fair use" itself is the peculiarity, not the lack of it, or at least that the implementation of fair use in different places differs too widely to base anything off of the US's particular version.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
