From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15775 invoked by alias); 26 May 2010 21:06:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 15764 invoked by uid 22791); 26 May 2010 21:06:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de (HELO einhorn.in-berlin.de) (192.109.42.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 26 May 2010 21:06:16 +0000 X-Envelope-From: doko@debian.org Received: from [192.168.42.17] (dslb-088-073-081-168.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.73.81.168]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id o4QL65GS001748; Wed, 26 May 2010 23:06:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4BFD8D2E.8000500@debian.org> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 21:15:00 -0000 From: Matthias Klose User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100423 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Mitchell CC: GCC , "Benj. Mako Hill" Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues References: <4BFC6EF0.4090908@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <4BFC6EF0.4090908@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-05/txt/msg00585.txt.bz2 On 26.05.2010 02:44, Mark Mitchell wrote: > In a biweekly call with the other GCC Release Managers, I was asked > today on the status of the SC/FSF discussions re. GFDL/GPL issues. In > particular, the question of whether or not we can use "literate > programming" techniques to extract documentation from code and take bits > of what is currently in GCC manuals and put that into comments in code > and so forth and so on. there is another issue with the manual pages. Debian considers GFDL licensed files with invariant sections and/or cover texts as non-free. You may agree or disagree with this, but the outcome is that Debian has to ship the gcc documentation and the manual pages in its non-free section. The issue was raised with the FSF some years ago, but issues with the GFDL seem to be low priority within the FSF (Mako may correct me). It would be nice to know if the files used to generate the manual pages (gcc/doc/invoke.texi, gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi, gcc/java/gcj.texi) could be dual-licensed as well, so that is possible to provide basic documentation in Debian as well. Matthias