GFDL/GPL issues

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 26 May 2010, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:

> why any "policy" defined for GTK would not be ok for GCC? Or are not all
> GNU projects equal? Is GTK less important to the FSF than GCC? Or maybe

Not all GNU projects assign their code to the FSF, and if they don't 
assign their code to the FSF then the question is what permissions the 
copyright holders of the code grant and what wording they permit to be 
used in license notices (subject of course to the FSF not accepting e.g. 
non-free licenses for anything in GNU projects).  Of course, if a project 
does not have copyright assignments and wishes to start using existing GPL 
code in GFDL manuals, or vice versa, they may then need to get permission 
for this from many different copyright holders, which could be at least as 
hard as getting permission from the FSF.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com