From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9037 invoked by alias); 27 May 2003 19:36:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 8940 invoked from network); 27 May 2003 19:36:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO piper.synopsys.com) (204.176.21.196) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 May 2003 19:36:04 -0000 Received: (from jbuck@localhost) by piper.synopsys.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h4RJZW605530; Tue, 27 May 2003 12:35:32 -0700 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 19:40:00 -0000 From: Joe Buck To: Mike Stump Cc: Nathanael Nerode , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: doxygen, GPL incompatibility of FDL, and the horror Message-ID: <20030527123532.A32384@synopsys.com> References: <20030525023000.GA2105@doctormoo> <6E4E85F2-9079-11D7-8138-003065A77310@apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <6E4E85F2-9079-11D7-8138-003065A77310@apple.com>; from mrs@apple.com on Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:28:44PM -0700 X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg02310.txt.bz2 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.