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== legalism == In part because they are inclined to [[fork off]], most trolls claim that "[t]he terms of the GFDL itself are quite clear that any improvement to the [[GFDL corpus]] must be made available to all", though the GFDL only implies that those improvements that are made visible to a small group, be visible to everyone. While they certainly are correct in principle, legally it's ambiguous, and a major problem with the GFDL as an [[open content]] license, that the exact obligations of an [[online service]] hosting an effort to improve the [[GFDL corpus]] has very unclear obligations in some respects. In these circumstances it is mere [[politics as usual]] to claim that one of several interpretations apply, though the more rigid requirement to share all improvements is well in line with the implications of the [[GPL]] and [[free software]] movements in which this requirement is clear. Accordingly it is a symptom of [[legalism]] - being forced into an [[adversarial process]] where one is in effect arguing like a lawyer - that this kind of tactic gets used. It is the same in any courtroom where a legal case is being presented.
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