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Re: possible license issue (documentation generated from source) in MELT branch of GCC
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: Basile Starynkevitch <basile at starynkevitch dot net>
- Cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 22:40:37 -0700
- Subject: Re: possible license issue (documentation generated from source) in MELT branch of GCC
- References: <1275122384.2008.70.camel@glinka>
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 01:39:44AM -0700, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> ... I was told that
> generating a *texi file from (GPLv3+ licensed, FSF copyrighted) source
> code could be incompatible with the GFDL license of gccint.texi.
The SC is trying to work something out with RMS on this (more generally,
it's also an issue for libstdc++ and doxygen). While I can't make
promises, it seems he's open to coming up with some kind of solution that
would allow this use, ideally without needing to involve lawyers.
Unfortunately these things always take longer than you'd think that they
should.