Why don't we set up an official wiki for GCC documentation?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Chunhua Liao wrote:

>   To Joesh: I did not think too much about the license issue or like.
> But I am just wondering how wikipedia could survive till today? More
> peple would like to doodle on an encyclopedia rather than on a
> sophisticated compiler tech site.

They don't require copyright assignments, unlike GCC.  It has been 
reported (e.g. 
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/05/msg00656.html>) that they 
cheated to remove Invariant Sections, infringing contributors' copyright 
by unilaterally changing the licence without everyone's consent.  Unlike 
Wikipedia, licence changes to the GCC documentation are legally possible, 
although unfortunately the FSF have had no interest in changing the 
licence away from the GFDL to one preferred by GCC contributors.

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