GNU FDL changes
Alfred M. Szmidt
ams at gnu.org
Sun Dec 9 21:12:38 UTC 2007
> The GFDL seems to prohibit that. Both verbatim and modified
> copies are supposed to include a full copy of the actual
> license text, not just a reference to it. See Sec. 2 para. 1
> and Sec. 4 part H of the GFDL.
>
> I was thinking of the new GFDL (when it is out), not the old one.
> See section 6a. [...]
6a applies to excerpts of less than 20k characters of text, which
doesn't cover some articles, or of less than a minute of video.
Images don't seem to be allowed as excerpts at all.
There is a reason why the D in FDL is for Documentation and not
Digital, one should use a different license for videos and graphics.
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