"Alfred M. Szmidt" ams@gnu.org wrote:
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.
Even under the new FDL, in general (section 2), you can only avoid including the licence brick in the work itself if the work's licence is registered with a national agency. In the UK, the national agency for copyright does not keep such a register and I expect most of the EU is similar. (See http://www.ipo.gov.uk/copy/c-claim/c-register.htm )
So, in most cases, the new FDL hasn't fixed that well-known bug.
I'm pretty sure that FSF were told that during the drafting process, but I can't check or see the response because the comment search is erroring yet again... (It's ticket [gnu.org #336650] if anyone else feels like chasing it.)
Regards,