From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: doxygen, GPL incompatibility of FDL, and the horror
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 08:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.55.0305250914560.84067@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030525023000.GA2105@doctormoo>
On Sat, 24 May 2003, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> This appears to make the following scenario illegal for anyone who
> hasn't assigned all their copyrights to the FSF (or indeed someone who
> has, but doesn't have the FSF's permission to modify copyrights)
> * I modify the doxygen comments.
> * I rerun doxygen.
> * I distribute the resulting documentation.
>
> Gah!
Does the libstdc++ docs contain invariant sections?
> On the more immediate note, anyone who contributed any doxygenated text
> to libstdc++-v3 is a contributor to the manual, and according to RMS, if
> they don't have a post-January 2000 copyright statement, we shouldn't
> use their work, which means we can't rerun doxygen.
> Gah!
>
> [I hate the FDL more and more...]
Would you mind raising this with RMS himself? RMS Cc:ed
moglen@columbia.edu on bkuhn@gnu.org relevant mails, so you
might consider doing the same.
Gerald
--
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-25 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-25 2:55 Nathanael Nerode
2003-05-25 8:18 ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2003-05-27 19:36 ` Mike Stump
2003-05-27 19:40 ` Joe Buck
2003-05-27 19:48 ` Joseph S. Myers
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