From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23384 invoked by alias); 27 May 2003 19:41:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 23369 invoked from network); 27 May 2003 19:41:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO plum.csi.cam.ac.uk) (131.111.8.3) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 May 2003 19:41:12 -0000 Received: from student.cusu.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.179.82] helo=kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk) by plum.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19KkJl-0000bT-MZ; Tue, 27 May 2003 20:41:05 +0100 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19KkJl-0002po-00; Tue, 27 May 2003 20:41:05 +0100 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 19:48:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" X-X-Sender: jsm28@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk To: Mike Stump cc: Nathanael Nerode , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: doxygen, GPL incompatibility of FDL, and the horror In-Reply-To: <6E4E85F2-9079-11D7-8138-003065A77310@apple.com> Message-ID: References: <6E4E85F2-9079-11D7-8138-003065A77310@apple.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Cam-ScannerAdmin: mail-scanner-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk X-Cam-AntiVirus: Not scanned X-Cam-SpamDetails: X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg02312.txt.bz2 On Tue, 27 May 2003, Mike Stump wrote: > Docs are generated from GPL source. We want the generated docs to be > covered by some other copyright. > > Solution, have the FSF officially bless this and then document it as a > blessed transformation. There may also be a use for having some cases of the converse blessed in future: GFDL manual used as source for generated code (keeping the specification of options the compiler accepts, and the --help output, in magic comments in the manual alongside the full documentation, to minimise the number of places to be changed to add an option and force documentation to be added when options are added). But the requirements of source in the GPL mean that either the magic comments themselves or the whole relevant manual files would need to have GPL dual licensing; it wouldn't be enough for only a generated non-source file to be under the GPL. -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk