On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:22:19PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Nathanael Nerode] > > Suppose the GCC manual was not licensed for use in essays on the > > economics of free software. (It actually provides some great > > examples of funding methods, and quoting some of the sections on > > various features to go with the information on how they were funded > > would be quite useful.) Wham, we lose freedom. Oh, wait -- it isn't > > licensed for such use. > > As far as I know, quoting is covered within the fair use rights, and > do not have to be covered by the license to be allowed. It is covered > by law.
Again--this has been said before, but perhaps not in a visible enough place: the concept of "fair use" does not exist in many jurisdictions, and varies widely in places it does. (I've heard that it's actually very jurisdiction- dependent, and that the US's concept of "fair use" is somewhat unusual, but I don't know any details.) If a license is only free as a result of "fair use", then it's not free. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
