GFDL/GPL issues

[Robert Dewar]

Mark Mitchell wrote:

> Yes, that is part of his thinking.  And, yes, we can split our manuals
> up into GPL and GFDL pieces, and in some cases that will work fine.
> But, documentation of constraints (important to users for writing inline
> assembly), or documentation of command-line options (important to all
> users), or documentation of built-in functions (important to users to
> understand the dialect of C we support) are all things that belong in
> the manual, not in separate GPL documents.
> 
> FSF policy is making it impossible for us to do something useful to
> users, that poses no real risk to the FSF's objectives (manuals were
> under the GPL for ages without the world ending), and which GCC's
> competitors can do.  That's a suboptimal policy.

I don't think it is making this impossible, my advice is simply to
consider this fair use and steam ahead, then worry if someone objects.
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