"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Werner Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For example a book on networks might want to include the OOB-Data > > text from glibc. With 48 lines (w/o the example) it is clearly > > beyond fair use. > > You can ask the FSF to make a execption for examples. This makes > sense, and I doubt anyone would object.
and once more the hackers are reduced to serfs, begging the copyright barons for permission to make sensible use of tools they already hold. I wonder if we would have the FDL problem if bright young hacker modifying a printer driver on a PDP-11 had also wanted to reuse a description from its manual for another project? (See http://www.faifzilla.org/ch01.html ) (Actually, www.faifzilla.org is an interesting case, under the FDL but seemingly dead for over a year now, still not meeting WCAG1A and still not applying the FDL as advised.) -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
