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What about invariant sections of the license?What about invariant sections of the license?Posted May 2, 2003 12:57 UTC (Fri) by hazelsct (guest, #3659)Parent article: When "Free" Isn't Good Enough One of the comments on debian-legal involved the problematic prohibition on removing "manifestoes" from invariant sections from various pieces of potentially GFDL software. But doesn't that also pose a problem for (L)GPL code? After all, the (L)GPL "preamble" is just such a manifesto with no legal function whatsoever, but must be distributed with the software and all of its derivatives. Likewise, a GFDL workaround which satisfies the letter (but not the spirit?) of DFSG is to have the author invent a new license which is the GPL plus her important texts. Since this license must be distributed with the code/doc, these texts become invariant sections. Would Debian distribute software thus licensed? How is this different from a GFDL code/doc?
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