* Richard Fontana: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:45 PM Jilayne Lovejoy <jlovejoy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Fedora lists the GNU Free Documentation License as "good" for documentation. the GFDL has this concept of "invariant sections" which can be declared or not in the license header. If this is used, then it creates some restrictions for those sections and there are some other specific obligations in the license. (I'm not going to try to explain this here, but if you are interested, this is probably a better summary than trying to actually parse the text of the license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt.en.html) >> >> Does any one know if GFDL is approved for Fedora regardless of if the invariant section is triggered? > > I think so, because doesn't the GFDL-licensed documentation in > Fedora-packaged GNU projects use invariant sections? Probably easy to > check. Correct, the glibc manual has a non-trivial invariant section (that is not the license text itself, that happens from time to time, too). Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
