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Re: GFDL/GPL issues

Richard Guenther wrote:

> Why not just ignore RMS and the license issues and simply do what we
> think suits us and the project.  Let the FSF deal with the legal consequences,
> they put us in this messy situation, they deal with it.

We should not distribute things in violation of their licenses; that
would be both unethical and legally actionable.  And, worse yet, we
should not induce third parties to take that kind of legal risk.

At this point, the manuals are GFDL and the code is GPL; we can't mix
them.  I suppose we could ask contributors to expressly permit their
GPL'd contributions to be licensed under the GFDL, but that's not
terribly useful unless we can get some dispensation for the existing code.

-- 
Mark Mitchell
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