GFDL/GPL issues

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 05/27/2010 10:02 AM, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> Quoting Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>:
>
>> On 05/26/2010 09:25 AM, Joern Rennecke wrote:
>>> What we can't do under this scheme is retroactively re-use code
>>> as documentation or vice versa; we'd need the appropriate license
>>> grant from the FSF for each bit of code/documentation that we want
>>> to re-use in that manner.
>>
>> Does it help that large parts of the internals manual were copied into
>> config/*/*.h files pre-GFDL? Certainly it would reduce the number of
>> people that will have to be contacted to relicense under the GPL their
>> contribution to the internals manual.
>
> If the manual was distributed pre-GFDL, doesn't that mean that previous
> version is available under the GPL in the first place?

Yes, that's right.  But then that would also help. :-)

Paolo