From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18205 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 2010 01:26:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 18184 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jul 2010 01:26:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:26:21 +0000 Received: (qmail 26482 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2010 01:26:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.104?) (mitchell@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 27 Jul 2010 01:26:19 -0000 Message-ID: <4C4E35B8.6010301@codesourcery.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:26:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Kosnik CC: Ian Lance Taylor , Steven Bosscher , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues References: <4BFC6EF0.4090908@codesourcery.com> <20100714172307.3687a9c4@shotwell> <4C48D2C4.5000103@codesourcery.com> <4C48D60E.3000604@codesourcery.com> <20100726175013.20b12428@shotwell> In-Reply-To: <20100726175013.20b12428@shotwell> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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: 2010-07/txt/msg00381.txt.bz2 Benjamin Kosnik wrote: >> What if we ask the FSF if we can dual license the constraints.md files >> under both the GPL and the GFDL? > I agree that we are likely to get more traction with a request to dual > license as opposed to re-license. Well, I've asked -- but RMS shot down that idea. > Not for the first time I find myself wishing the FSF spent more mental > effort on documentation for free software, at every level. I (and I speak here not for the FSF, the SC, CodeSourcery, or anybody else) wish the FSF spent less time "improving" licenses and more time focused on making FSF software attractive to end users. I'm disappointed that a license "improvement" (changing GPL to GFDL on manuals) has made it impossible to do something that we, as developers, used to be able to do (when documentation was under the GPL we could move things back and forth between code and documentation at will), and which benefited users (by making it easier for us to generate better documentation). -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery mark@codesourcery.com (650) 331-3385 x713