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Re: Question regarding documentation license
- From: Lorenz Minder <lminder at gmx dot net>
- To: libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:25:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: Question regarding documentation license
Hi,
Thanks for taking the time and answering!
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:54:06PM +0100, Lorenz Minder wrote:
> >> Is my understanding that the relevant source code comments are not
> >> affected by this correct? (I.e., those are still GPL + Runtime
> >> exception?)
>
> (Sigh, not the GFDL flame wars again ...)
It's definitely not my intent to start a flame war, and chances are that
this post will be the last contribution to this thread. (I had read the
debian-legal discussions at the time, but didn't know that the GCC
community was implied as well.)
> In one place you are given permission to distribute and modify the code
> under the GPL+exception; in another, you are given permission to
> distribute and modify under the GFDL. So the effect is dual licensing.
Ok, that makes sense to me, thanks.
--Lorenz