[Bug other/44032] internals documentation is not legally safe to use

[egallager at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44032

Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

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                 CC|                            |joseph at codesourcery dot com,
                   |                            |steven at gcc dot gnu.org

--- Comment #5 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Jorn Wolfgang Rennecke from comment #4)
> (In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #3)
> > Is this fixed in the same way that bug 44035 was fixed?
> 
> No. 44035 was about the inability to fix, 44032 is about the
> actual licensing state of the documentation.  A brief look at
> gccint.texi shows that this file remains purely GFDL.
> I suppose there are numerous other files likewise affected.
> 
> It can only be considered fixed if all the parts of existing
> documentation that you might conceivably want to cut & paste into
> GPLed code are suitably re-licensed, and we have put something in
> place that the issue will generally not appear with new GCC
> documentation.
> 
> If all documentation files that come with GCC were patched as
> suggested in comment #2, that could be considered a solution,

Joseph that was your comment... do you want to try it?

> as people who cut & paste the copyright blurb for new files
> would pick up the new text.  Well, there might be a transition
> period when backed-up patches and patches made with using older
> baselines need to be vetted for necessary adjustments.
> 
> If only some documentation files are patches to have the
> amended copyright blurb, as others have no applicable code
> samples, the others should have a warning not to copy them to
> new files that will have such samples.