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Re: doxygen, GPL incompatibility of FDL, and the horror
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 09:16:38 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: doxygen, GPL incompatibility of FDL, and the horror
- References: <20030525023000.GA2105@doctormoo>
On Sat, 24 May 2003, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> This appears to make the following scenario illegal for anyone who
> hasn't assigned all their copyrights to the FSF (or indeed someone who
> has, but doesn't have the FSF's permission to modify copyrights)
> * I modify the doxygen comments.
> * I rerun doxygen.
> * I distribute the resulting documentation.
>
> Gah!
Does the libstdc++ docs contain invariant sections?
> On the more immediate note, anyone who contributed any doxygenated text
> to libstdc++-v3 is a contributor to the manual, and according to RMS, if
> they don't have a post-January 2000 copyright statement, we shouldn't
> use their work, which means we can't rerun doxygen.
> Gah!
>
> [I hate the FDL more and more...]
Would you mind raising this with RMS himself? RMS Cc:ed
moglen@columbia.edu on bkuhn@gnu.org relevant mails, so you
might consider doing the same.
Gerald
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