simo wrote:
To me it is more that invariant sections cannot be removed is bad, not that invariant are bad per se.
I would prefer my opinion to be removed entirely than see them changed, so I welcome invariant sections to some degree but not the way they are made in the GFDL. I think that removable invariant sections would be a good thing.
I agree. But as I've proposed and asked before, do we really need a revised FDL or other new license to achieve that goal? Wouldn't it suffice to put the primary content under the (L)GPL and the "invariant sections" under a simple unlimited-distribution, no-modification license?
BTW, the author then has even the options of licensing the "invariant sections" as a whole or each on its own, so that some of sections may or may not be removed on their own, as he chooses.
One advantage would obviously be that the licenses used are well understood, so there'd be little potential for unexpected surprises (such as the "evil person adding invariant sections to FDL work" scenario Alessandro and I described -- I supposed it wasn't the intention of the FDL creators, but an unexpected consequence arising from its complexities, or just from its being new and less well understood).
Frank