From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com>
Cc: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: doxygen, GPL incompatibility of FDL, and the horror
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 19:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030527123532.A32384@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6E4E85F2-9079-11D7-8138-003065A77310@apple.com>; from mrs@apple.com on Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:28:44PM -0700
On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 07:30 PM, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > Just realized that the doxygen docs in libstdc++-v3 are under the FDL.
> > The files they take information out of are under the GPL. This is
> > legitimate only because the FSF owns the copyrights and can release
> > them
> > under any damn copyright it likes. :-/
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:28:44PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> If I understand this correctly...
>
> Docs are generated from GPL source. We want the generated docs to be
> covered by some other copyright.
>
> Solution, have the FSF officially bless this and then document it as a
> blessed transformation.
We're discussing this issue right now on the SC list with RMS, as part of
a more general GFDL discussion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-27 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-25 2:55 Nathanael Nerode
2003-05-25 8:18 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2003-05-27 19:36 ` Mike Stump
2003-05-27 19:40 ` Joe Buck [this message]
2003-05-27 19:48 ` Joseph S. Myers
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