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Re: GFDL/GPL issues
Quoting Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>:
I don't understand the full situation with MELT. But, you cannot
combine GPL'd and GFDL's stuff, so I don't think you can auto-generate
GFDL documentation from GPL'd code on the MELT branch.
I don't see a problem if the auto-generated GFDL documentation is
identical to documentation that has been previously released under the GFDL.
Or if the only portions not covered by the above are generated from content
for which the user of the autogeneration machinery has full authorship
rights.
You could
generate GPL'd documentation, though.
But then it must not rely on GFDL files; the GCC documentation generally
uses some texinfo infrastructure.