From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22045 invoked by alias); 27 May 2010 08:04:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 21948 invoked by uid 22791); 27 May 2010 08:04:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-wy0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-wy0-f175.google.com) (74.125.82.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 May 2010 08:03:58 +0000 Received: by wya21 with SMTP id 21so1618538wya.20 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 01:03:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.69.17 with SMTP id x17mr9502858wbi.171.1274947435335; Thu, 27 May 2010 01:03:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yakj.usersys.redhat.com (nat-pool-brq-t.redhat.com [209.132.186.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z33sm6752659wbd.19.2010.05.27.01.03.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 27 May 2010 01:03:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BFE2763.2030705@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:12:00 -0000 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-3.fc13 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joern Rennecke CC: Mark Mitchell , GCC Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues References: <4BFC6EF0.4090908@codesourcery.com> <20100526032527.51epd2e20o0ocowc-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> <4BFE0575.5010908@gnu.org> <20100527040238.yy8bn53uowws4g88-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> In-Reply-To: <20100527040238.yy8bn53uowws4g88-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00609.txt.bz2 On 05/27/2010 10:02 AM, Joern Rennecke wrote: > Quoting Paolo Bonzini : > >> On 05/26/2010 09:25 AM, Joern Rennecke wrote: >>> What we can't do under this scheme is retroactively re-use code >>> as documentation or vice versa; we'd need the appropriate license >>> grant from the FSF for each bit of code/documentation that we want >>> to re-use in that manner. >> >> Does it help that large parts of the internals manual were copied into >> config/*/*.h files pre-GFDL? Certainly it would reduce the number of >> people that will have to be contacted to relicense under the GPL their >> contribution to the internals manual. > > If the manual was distributed pre-GFDL, doesn't that mean that previous > version is available under the GPL in the first place? Yes, that's right. But then that would also help. :-) Paolo