Re: GNU Free Documentation License

[Richard Stallman]

        use a document licensed under the GNU FDL on my website, will my
        website's standard template, logo, etc. become subject to the license
        as well? 

    I'm quite sure that is not the intent, although I can see how one could
    interpret the GFDL in such a way.  It's a "modified" document, in some
    strict sense.

    But there's another, more reasonable, reading, which is to say that it's
    an "aggregation" of independent works, and then the works do not fall
    under the GFDL.  After all, your web site logo is certainly completely
    independent of the GFDL'd document.

If you put your logo etc. into the same page as the GFDL-covered text,
I believe the whole page must be available under the GFDL terms.
That page, as a whole, is a publication of the document, so users
are entitled to the usual freedoms in using it.

Owever, if you use frames, so that the GFDL-covered text is in a
separate page from the logo, then you can justify the position
that they are merely aggregated.  Then your frame doesn't have
to be covered by the GFDL.  The logo could be in the frame,
or in a different subpage of the frame.