Re: doxygen, GPL incompatibility of FDL, and the horror

[Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>]

On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 07:30 PM, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > Just realized that the doxygen docs in libstdc++-v3 are under the FDL.
> > The files they take information out of are under the GPL.  This is
> > legitimate only because the FSF owns the copyrights and can release 
> > them
> > under any damn copyright it likes. :-/

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:28:44PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> If I understand this correctly...
> 
> Docs are generated from GPL source.  We want the generated docs to be 
> covered by some other copyright.
> 
> Solution, have the FSF officially bless this and then document it as a 
> blessed transformation.

We're discussing this issue right now on the SC list with RMS, as part of
a more general GFDL discussion.