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Re: GFDL/GPL issues
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:53:48AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> I believe that the right fix (short of simply abandoning the GFDL, which
> would be fine with me, but is presumably not going to pass muster with
> RMS) is a revision to the GPL that explicitly permits relicensing GPL'd
> content under the GFDL, by anyone. Movement in that direction should
> not be of concern to the FSF; the point of the GFDL was to prevent
> people removing the FSF's philosophical statements in its manuals, not
> to prevent GPL'd content from being used in manuals.
RMS already rejected the idea of dual-licensing just GCC (GPL/GFDL) to
deal with this problem, now you're asking to effectively dual-license all
GCC (v3.1?) code that way. Even if he would be willing to consider it
(which I doubt), he'd want to have attorneys examine all the legal
consequences so another year will go by.
We might need to go in the other direction (less radical, but enough to
solve the immediate problem). What if only constraints files are
dual-licensed (GPL3+ or GFDL) for now? Then documentation can be
generated from them and we've at least solved that problem. If RMS agrees
to that and sees that the world doesn't end, maybe he'll be open later on
to opening this door wider.