Help talk:General disclaimer

Concerning item 2 of the General Rule, "The work can't be distributed en masse. For that, the copier must get permission from the individual authors (significant contributors)." This is misleading, because the GFDL itself grants permission for distribution en masse (in sections 2, "Verbatim Copying" and 3, "Copying in Quantity"). The best summary of the GFDL may be the first sentence of its preamble, "The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially." --Kernigh 15:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)