From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16206 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2005 15:30:00 -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 16195 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jul 2005 15:29:58 -0000 Received: from x93.infopact.nl (HELO x93.infopact.nl) (212.29.160.93) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:29:58 +0000 Received: from 63-66-dsl.ipact.nl (63-66-dsl.ipact.nl [84.35.66.63]) by x93.infopact.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6BFTtx9011898; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:29:56 +0200 From: Steven Bosscher To: Andrew Haley Subject: Re: Some notes on the Wiki Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:30:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: Bernd Schmidt , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Diego Novillo References: <28206.1121071576@www23.gmx.net> <200507111654.06266.stevenb@suse.de> <17106.36491.576247.423079@zapata.pink> In-Reply-To: <17106.36491.576247.423079@zapata.pink> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507111730.02677.stevenb@suse.de> X-Spam-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00422.txt.bz2 On Monday 11 July 2005 17:21, Andrew Haley wrote: > > We already can't do that. We can't move documentation from the manual > > into the code, and vice versa, because of the GPL vs. GFDL issue. > > Actually, that's not true because *we* (or to be accurate the FSF) own > the copyright on both. To play the Devil's advocate: One could argue that someone contributing to the GCC code under the GPL does not agree with the GFDL, and therefore the FSF can't live up to its promise (that iirc it makes in the copyright assignment) to keep the code under a free license. In practice, people have already contributed significants amount of documentation as comment because they disagree with the GFDL. Gr. Steven