On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:44:27AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Unless the derived document falls under section 7, "AGGREGATION WITH > INDEPENDENT WORKS" (which requires that more than half of the document > consists of independent work not derived from the GFDLed document), you > must put the covers around the entire derived work, not just part of it.
This is a solvable problem. > Also, are you suggesting that you would not build on the content > directly, but only include portions of it in an appendix and refer to in > in the main document? If so, see below. Exactly. > > Note that content under a "patches only" license will give you much > > worse problems when incorporating it (perhaps as examples, or perhaps > > pulling documentation from a help menu item) into other documentation. > > DFSG4 allows "patches only" licenses, but only if they satisfy the rest > of DFSG4, which requires that "The license must explicitly permit > distribution of software built from modified source code.". Where's the DFSG requirement that requires the license permit distribution without the unpatched sources? -- Raul