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Re: GFDL/GPL issues
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: fw at deneb dot enyo dot de
- Cc: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, ams at gnu dot org, bkoz at redhat dot com, dewar at adacore dot com, dnovillo at google dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, iant at google dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, richard dot guenther at gmail dot com, stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:19:48 EDT
- Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues
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> This approach is far less useful for languages which haven't got
> separate spec files
But there aren't many of those! In C, a ".h" file can easily be viewed as
a "separate spec file" and interface documentation can and should be placed
there, though I understand that few coding conventions call for that.