From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4055 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2005 15:19:51 -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 4007 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jul 2005 15:19:43 -0000 Received: from dumbledore.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:19:43 +0000 Received: (qmail 2617 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2005 15:19:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digraph.polyomino.org.uk) (joseph@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 11 Jul 2005 15:19:41 -0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1Ds04J-0001Dn-FO; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:19:39 +0000 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:19:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" X-X-Sender: jsm28@digraph.polyomino.org.uk To: rms@gnu.org cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Some notes on the Wiki In-Reply-To: <200507111654.06266.stevenb@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <28206.1121071576@www23.gmx.net> <200507111622.52272.stevenb@suse.de> <42D28752.8080805@t-online.de> <200507111654.06266.stevenb@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00418.txt.bz2 On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Steven Bosscher wrote: > On Monday 11 July 2005 16:50, Bernd Schmidt wrote: > > Steven Bosscher wrote: > > > I guess that, apart from the legal discussion of whether this enough, > > > such a statement would not apply to existing content. It was certainly > > > not my intention to sign over the various Wiki contributions I have > > > made to the FSF. > > > > This strikes me as shortsighted. > > Call it what you will. For me it is a matter of choice and freedom. > > > If we're getting into a situation > > where we can't freely move documentation from one place to another, > > we're shooting ourselves in the foot. > > We already can't do that. We can't move documentation from the manual > into the code, and vice versa, because of the GPL vs. GFDL issue. It > is that kind of thing that completely takes away any motivation I might > otherwise have to contribute to the manual. 1. If GCC developers wish to move documentation from the GPL code to the GFDL manuals, or vice versa, what procedures need to be followed? 2. Do existing GCC copyright assignments cover the GCC Wiki ? -- Joseph S. Myers http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/gcc/ jsm@polyomino.org.uk (personal mail) joseph@codesourcery.com (CodeSourcery mail) jsm28@gcc.gnu.org (Bugzilla assignments and CCs)