From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7754 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2010 20:52:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 7744 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Aug 2010 20:52:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gw0-f47.google.com (HELO mail-gw0-f47.google.com) (74.125.83.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:52:48 +0000 Received: by gwb15 with SMTP id 15so2399299gwb.20 for ; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:52:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.183.200 with SMTP id ch8mr11030199ibb.124.1280955165638; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.199.134 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:52:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4C5195FA.2060208@codesourcery.com> <4C52B176.7040807@adacore.com> <4C52E1C0.6090400@codesourcery.com> <4C53696B.7030801@adacore.com> <4C536B50.4010402@codesourcery.com> <11008022317.AA08984@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <20100803162022.GU17485@synopsys.com> <20100804002105.744fb6af@shotwell> <20100804164618.GX17485@synopsys.com> <4C59B33A.207@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:12:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues From: Richard Guenther To: ams@gnu.org Cc: Jonathan Wakely , bonzini@gnu.org, Joe.Buck@synopsys.com, bkoz@redhat.com, paul_koning@dell.com, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu, dnovillo@google.com, dewar@adacore.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, iant@google.com, mark@codesourcery.com, stevenb.gcc@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: 2010-08/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > =A0 > I have read the thread in full, and I do not see the problem with > =A0 > keeping that info in a seperate manual; GCC has so many options > =A0 > for various architectures and systems that I think it makes > =A0 > technical sense to have a "Invoking GCC" manual. > > =A0 And what about libstdc++ API docs, which are currently quite > =A0 difficult to cross-reference with the libstdc++ manual, and cannot > =A0 be included in it? =A0The API docs come from C++ sources and the > =A0 manual from docbook sources, so texinfo has nothing to do with it. > > For a API reference listing document, it would make more sense to > license the work under the GPL, is that possible? > > There is no rule in the GNU project that all types of documentation > must be licensed under the GFDL. =A0Sometimes it makes sense, good > examples are the gccint, gcc and the emacs manual, and sometimes it > might not like for API reference listings. I can't see how the GFDL "makes sense" for anything. Richard.