GFDL/GPL issues

[Joern Rennecke]

Quoting Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>:

> Joern Rennecke wrote:
>
>> Actually, the legal definition of fair use / fair dealing that   
>> might or might
>> not apply depends on the country of residence of the contributer
>
> Not true in the US for sure.

Are you saying that the USA is a solipsist nation that denies the existence
of people (or at least of Free Software developers) in other places?

That would be a rather odd regression, considering that other parts of the
GPL - and in particular v3 - were specifically written so as to to make
its meaning uniform irrespective of differences in national laws.

If you want to make the point that the FSF would have to consider fair
use if it were to sue in an US court - well, AFAICT it wouldn't have to,
it could sue in the court of the contributor's country of residence /
incorporation, as is common in patent cases where the patent might be
invalid in the patent holders's country of incorporation.