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Re: Some notes on the Wiki
- From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1 at t-online dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:30:02 +0200
- Subject: Re: Some notes on the Wiki
- References: <28206.1121071576@www23.gmx.net> <200507111654.06266.stevenb@suse.de> <17106.36491.576247.423079@zapata.pink>
On Monday 11 July 2005 17:21, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > We already can't do that. We can't move documentation from the manual
> > into the code, and vice versa, because of the GPL vs. GFDL issue.
>
> Actually, that's not true because *we* (or to be accurate the FSF) own
> the copyright on both.
To play the Devil's advocate: One could argue that someone contributing
to the GCC code under the GPL does not agree with the GFDL, and therefore
the FSF can't live up to its promise (that iirc it makes in the copyright
assignment) to keep the code under a free license.
In practice, people have already contributed significants amount of
documentation as comment because they disagree with the GFDL.
Gr.
Steven