* Richard Fontana: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:45 PM Jilayne Lovejoy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Fedora lists the GNU Free Documentation License as "good" for documentation. >> the GFDL has this concept of "invariant sections" which can be declared or >> not in the license header. If this is used, then it creates some >> restrictions for those sections and there are some other specific >> obligations in the license. (I'm not going to try to explain this here, but >> if you are interested, this is probably a better summary than trying to >> actually parse the text of the license >> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt.en.html) >> >> Does any one know if GFDL is approved for Fedora regardless of if the >> invariant section is triggered? > > I think so, because doesn't the GFDL-licensed documentation in > Fedora-packaged GNU projects use invariant sections? Probably easy to > check.
Correct, the glibc manual has a non-trivial invariant section (that is not the license text itself, that happens from time to time, too). Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
