Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:44:33AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:07:21AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> >> By contrast, if there is an invariant section written in Japanese, I >> >> cannot remove it, I cannot distribute a translation instead, I must >> >> instead simply not transmit the document *at all* if I am stuck with >> >> an ASCII-only medium. >> > >> > I guess you've never heard of UUENCODE. >> >> That won't help: If the device is not capable of uudecoding and >> displaying the resulting Japanese, the license requirement cannot be >> fulfilled. > > That's ridiculous.
To me, it's rather sad. > The requirement is not that the sections must display on every device > imaginable anyway. The requirement is that the sections are preserved when > the document is distributed. So how can I distribute the document on that device if I cannot include it on the device? I cannot, and hence the modifications needed to use it on that device are not allowed. Of course I can distribute the complete document and tell the owner of such a device how to create a derivative that fits on it. But then he may no longer distribute it. That's non-free. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)