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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:30:41 +0200, Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> 
>> Precisely my point: under copyright law, you can't.
> 
> You can't *what*, exactly?
> 
	You can't reuse the material without explicit permission, even if
it contains "free speech". Under fair use, you can at most quote one
or two sentences, not the complete contents. On the other hand,
under fair use, there is no restriction on the license of your work
no matter whom you quote or how you quote them. GPL is completely
different: it allows you to redistribute the whole contents with or
without modification but it imposes some restrictions on the license
you put you contribution in: it must also be GPL. This show that
there is absolutely no relation whatsoever between "free speech" and
the GPL (which doesn't prevent something to be both, but that's
another question).

> You can use someone else's material under fair use doctrine (in the US at 
> least) and with attribution in most cases.  *Some* organizations (most 
> recently and notably, the Associated Press) try to put additional 
> restrictions in place.  That may not be enforceable.
> 
> Jim

		Jerome
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