From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5125 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 2010 21:39:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 5117 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jul 2010 21:39:28 -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 21:39:14 +0000 Received: (qmail 2580 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2010 21:39:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.104?) (mitchell@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 27 Jul 2010 21:39:13 -0000 Message-ID: <4C4F51FF.9090706@codesourcery.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:39:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Guenther CC: Joe Buck , Robert Dewar , Benjamin Kosnik , 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> <4C4E35B8.6010301@codesourcery.com> <4C4E37FC.1060208@adacore.com> <4C4F010C.5060401@codesourcery.com> <20100727180738.GU17485@synopsys.com> <4C4F20E8.5050206@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: 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/msg00393.txt.bz2 Richard Guenther wrote: > Why not just ignore RMS and the license issues and simply do what we > think suits us and the project. Let the FSF deal with the legal consequences, > they put us in this messy situation, they deal with it. We should not distribute things in violation of their licenses; that would be both unethical and legally actionable. And, worse yet, we should not induce third parties to take that kind of legal risk. At this point, the manuals are GFDL and the code is GPL; we can't mix them. I suppose we could ask contributors to expressly permit their GPL'd contributions to be licensed under the GFDL, but that's not terribly useful unless we can get some dispensation for the existing code. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery mark@codesourcery.com (650) 331-3385 x713