Quoting Robert Dewar :
Joern Rennecke wrote:
Actually, the legal definition of fair use / fair dealing that
might or might
not apply depends on the country of residence of the contributer
Not true in the US for sure.
Are you saying that the USA is a solipsist nation that denies the exis
Robert Dewar wrote:
> Whether something is fair use has to be judged on the very specific
> instance in question, not clear to me that RMS has opined on a very
> specific issue, if so, I missed it.
We don't want to ask RMS every time we want to do this. RMS has opined
on some of the specific cas
Joern Rennecke wrote:
Actually, the legal definition of fair use / fair dealing that might or might
not apply depends on the country of residence of the contributer
Not true in the US for sure.
, but if
RMS says you shouldn't do this, ignoring him is not proper in the context of
a GNU projec
Mark Mitchell wrote:
Robert Dewar wrote:
I don't think it is making this impossible, my advice is simply to
consider this fair use and steam ahead, then worry if someone objects.
Despite the copyright holder (well, RMS, but he certainly can be
interpreted as speaking for the FSF) saying plain
Richard Kenner wrote:
But even for documentation written by hand, often I find that I'd like to
start out with some comment or example from the actual code. The GPL / GFDL
dichotomy doesn't allow me to do that, so some documentation just won't get
written.
Taking an example from actual code w
Quoting Mark Mitchell :
Robert Dewar wrote:
I don't think it is making this impossible, my advice is simply to
consider this fair use and steam ahead, then worry if someone objects.
Despite the copyright holder (well, RMS, but he certainly can be
interpreted as speaking for the FSF) saying p
Robert Dewar wrote:
> I don't think it is making this impossible, my advice is simply to
> consider this fair use and steam ahead, then worry if someone objects.
Despite the copyright holder (well, RMS, but he certainly can be
interpreted as speaking for the FSF) saying plainly and clearly that h
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Mark Mitchell wrote:
Yes, that is part of his thinking. And, yes, we can split our manuals
up into GPL and GFDL pieces, and in some cases that will work fine.
But, documentation of constraints (important to users for writing inline
assembly), or documentation of command-line options (important
Jeff Law wrote:
Isn't one of the specific instances of this issue the desire to copy
some of the constraints information from the source, which would need to
go into the user manual rather than internals documentation?
And in some cases a function index with documentation may be precisely
wh
Richard Kenner wrote:
But even for documentation written by hand, often I find that I'd like to
start out with some comment or example from the actual code. The GPL / GFDL
dichotomy doesn't allow me to do that, so some documentation just won't get
written.
Taking an example from actual code wo
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