Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual
David Kastrup <dak(a)gnu.org> writes:
Richard Stallman <rms(a)gnu.org> writes:
> But
> personally I wish the FSF would amend the GFDL to remove the additional
> encumbering restrictions, or simply rename it the GNU Documentation
> License:
>
> "The GDL is a not-too-unfree documentation license that reserves
> certain non-economic rights to authors, while perpetually
>
> In our judgment, it is free. If you disagree, you're entitled
> to your opinion.
If you want to produce a help sheet from the contents of the manual,
having to include the complete invariant sections might prove
prohibitive even where the scope and content of additional invariant
sections has not been chosen explicitly for encumbering further
distribution by a party in the middle.
I haven't studied the GFDL, but IIUC, the issue raised here with the
GFDL is this:
It is not legal (execpt for the copyright owner) to take sections from
a GFDL'ed text and incorporating that text into a GPL program or other
GPL or GFDL (or similarly) licensed documentation without breaking the
GFDL of the original text.
Compare this to taking a section of one GPL program and including it
in another GPL program -- that's fully legal (IIUC).
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Kim F. Storm <storm(a)cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk