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Re: [3.2/3.3/HEAD] Make all the manuals unambiguously DFSG free


My own guesses as to answers to your questions:

    Must explicit FSF approval also be given for fixing _defective_
    licence applications?  

It depends on how obvious it is that there's a "defect".

    Some of the Ada manuals do not apply the GFDL in the proper GNU way;

The Ada manuals are somewhat of a special case because they are basically
in the process of being converted to "the proper GNU way".

    When new files (covered by an assignment) are added, may they in all
    cases be added under the standard FSF terms (as described at
    <http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_9.html>) without explicit approval?
    What about other cases - may a file that will form part of libgcc be
    added with the libgcc exception without explicit approval?  If an
    author wishes to use the GFDL for a new manual without Cover Texts,
    may they? 

I'd argue that for new files the author specifies the copyright terms
and those would survive the assignment to the FSF so that the answer to
all of those would be "yes" unless there was some clear conflict with
FSF practice.

    Must explicit FSF approval be given to add copyright and licence
    notices to files missing them? 

I'd say "no" because from a legal point of view, those files already have the
standard terms applied anyway even without those notices.

    Must it be given to add the libgcc exception to a libgcc file wrongly
    lacking it?  Must it be given to copy code from a non-libgcc file into
    libgcc?

Technically, "yes", but the "de mimimus" and "clear error" doctrines are
relevant here and may mean the answer is "no" in specific case.


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