Re: GFDL/GPL issues

[Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>]

On 05/27/2010 10:02 AM, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> Quoting Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>:
>
> > On 05/26/2010 09:25 AM, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > > What we can't do under this scheme is retroactively re-use code
> > > as documentation or vice versa; we'd need the appropriate license
> > > grant from the FSF for each bit of code/documentation that we want
> > > to re-use in that manner.
> >
> > Does it help that large parts of the internals manual were copied into
> > config/*/*.h files pre-GFDL? Certainly it would reduce the number of
> > people that will have to be contacted to relicense under the GPL their
> > contribution to the internals manual.
>
> If the manual was distributed pre-GFDL, doesn't that mean that previous
> version is available under the GPL in the first place?

Yes, that's right.  But then that would also help. :-)

Paolo