From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@spamcop.net>
To: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>,
Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>,
iant@google.com, Joe.Buck@synopsys.com, ams@gnu.org,
bkoz@redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, richard.guenther@gmail.com,
stevenb.gcc@gmail.com
Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100730115402.fmxx5cyvi804owso-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C52E1C0.6090400@codesourcery.com>
Quoting Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>:
> Robert Dewar wrote:
>
>> I don't think it is making this impossible, my advice is simply to
>> consider this fair use and steam ahead, then worry if someone objects.
>
> Despite the copyright holder (well, RMS, but he certainly can be
> interpreted as speaking for the FSF) saying plainly and clearly that he
> thinks that you *cannot* do this?
Actually, the legal definition of fair use / fair dealing that might or might
not apply depends on the country of residence of the contributer, but if
RMS says you shouldn't do this, ignoring him is not proper in the context of
a GNU project - and if you are doing a fork to get away from FSF policies,
you might as well write your documentation GPLed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-30 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 139+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-26 4:19 Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 7:25 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-26 15:42 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-05-26 16:03 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 18:10 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-26 18:27 ` Richard Kenner
2010-05-26 18:42 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 21:06 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-26 21:07 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 21:42 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-26 21:26 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-26 21:28 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 22:54 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-05-26 23:12 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 21:37 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-05-27 5:10 ` Russ Allbery
2010-05-26 19:16 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-26 16:08 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-26 18:09 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-26 18:12 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 23:12 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-05-26 8:04 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-27 7:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-05-27 8:04 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-27 8:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-05-26 21:15 ` Matthias Klose
2010-05-26 21:42 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-05-26 21:51 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-27 0:01 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2010-05-27 5:39 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-27 11:46 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-05-27 17:20 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-05-27 22:51 ` Russ Allbery
2010-05-28 0:32 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-28 2:51 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-07-15 0:23 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-07-22 23:22 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-22 23:28 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-07-22 23:36 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-23 0:27 ` Joe Buck
2010-07-23 2:18 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-07-23 3:11 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-23 8:23 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-07-23 15:59 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-23 16:34 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-07-23 16:42 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 0:50 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-07-27 1:26 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 1:37 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-27 15:54 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 17:41 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-07-27 17:45 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 21:20 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2010-07-27 18:08 ` Joe Buck
2010-07-27 18:09 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 20:25 ` Richard Guenther
2010-07-27 21:39 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-28 21:00 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-07-28 21:17 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-28 22:08 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-07-28 22:30 ` Richard Guenther
2010-07-29 7:41 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-07-29 8:36 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-07-29 8:55 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-29 9:23 ` Toon Moene
2010-07-29 12:47 ` Richard Kenner
2010-07-29 14:11 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-07-29 14:25 ` Richard Kenner
2010-07-29 14:33 ` Jeff Law
2010-07-29 14:40 ` Richard Kenner
2010-07-30 11:02 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-30 11:01 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-30 18:08 ` Toon Moene
2010-07-29 14:53 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-30 11:03 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-30 14:29 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-30 15:54 ` Joern Rennecke [this message]
2010-07-31 0:10 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-31 3:11 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-07-31 12:24 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-31 0:08 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-31 0:16 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-08-02 23:13 ` Diego Novillo
2010-08-02 23:16 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-02 23:21 ` Diego Novillo
2010-08-02 23:23 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-08-02 23:34 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-02 23:45 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-08-03 0:57 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-03 2:08 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-08-03 18:46 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-15 19:16 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 16:17 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-15 16:11 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 16:19 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-15 19:47 ` Joel Sherrill
2010-08-15 20:21 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-16 12:10 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-17 3:19 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-08-17 3:56 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-17 10:41 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-08-03 9:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-03 0:51 ` Paul Koning
2010-08-03 16:20 ` Joe Buck
2010-08-03 18:49 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-03 21:45 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-08-15 16:17 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 17:24 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-15 16:12 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-15 16:17 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 16:16 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-16 20:53 ` Jonathan Corbet
2010-08-03 19:58 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-08-04 7:23 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-08-04 13:10 ` Diego Novillo
2010-08-04 7:21 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-08-04 16:46 ` Joe Buck
2010-08-04 17:35 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-08-04 18:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 18:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 18:56 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-08-04 18:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 19:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 20:03 ` Jonathan Wakely
2010-08-04 20:25 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-08-04 20:52 ` Diego Novillo
2010-08-04 21:12 ` Richard Guenther
2010-08-04 22:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 23:08 ` Joe Buck
2010-08-05 3:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-05 3:09 ` Jonathan Wakely
2010-08-04 18:48 ` Joe Buck
2010-08-04 20:42 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-08-03 18:36 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-04 0:08 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-27 3:31 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-29 20:20 Brian Makin
2010-07-29 21:06 ` Joe Buck
2010-08-04 20:03 Brian Makin
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