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Ask FSF General Counsel Eben Moglen

Posted by Roblimo on Monday February 10, 2003 @05:00AM from the liberty-needs-all-the-defenders-she-can-get dept.

Columbia Law School professor Eben Moglen has been the Free Software Foundation's (pro bono) general counsel since 1993. He's also involved with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and has been mentioned on Slashdot a number of times because of his participation in these groups and some of the worthy causes they support, as well as other freedom-related matters. One question per post, please. We'll run Prof. Moglen's answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions as soon as he gets them back to us.

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Did I violate the FDL? by KjetilK · 2003-02-10 05:33 · Score: 2, Offtopic

I made a one-page excerpt from the GPG Keysigning Party HOWTO, printed ten copies and handed them out at a keysigning party.
Did I violate the FDL? (If I did, I must apologize to V. Alex Brennen.)
What I've come to think about is that it seems the FDL requires that the full license text accompanies every copy. When you're making single-page excerpts, it is of course very inconvenient to include a four-page license... But is it really necessary to include the whole license, or is it sufficient to include a short copyright notice referencing the FDL?

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