From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30773 invoked by alias); 26 May 2010 21:26:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 30763 invoked by uid 22791); 26 May 2010 21:26:10 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 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; Wed, 26 May 2010 21:26:05 +0000 Received: (qmail 12034 invoked from network); 26 May 2010 21:26:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digraph.polyomino.org.uk) (joseph@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 26 May 2010 21:26:03 -0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OHO70-00045P-4U; Wed, 26 May 2010 21:26:02 +0000 Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 21:37:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Basile Starynkevitch cc: Mark Mitchell , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , GCC Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues In-Reply-To: <1274901401.3572.75.camel@glinka> Message-ID: References: <4BFC6EF0.4090908@codesourcery.com> <1274853403.2089.21.camel@glinka> <4BFD44AB.6060402@codesourcery.com> <1274896995.3572.26.camel@glinka> <4BFD6646.7010500@codesourcery.com> <1274901401.3572.75.camel@glinka> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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: 2010-05/txt/msg00589.txt.bz2 On Wed, 26 May 2010, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > why any "policy" defined for GTK would not be ok for GCC? Or are not all > GNU projects equal? Is GTK less important to the FSF than GCC? Or maybe Not all GNU projects assign their code to the FSF, and if they don't assign their code to the FSF then the question is what permissions the copyright holders of the code grant and what wording they permit to be used in license notices (subject of course to the FSF not accepting e.g. non-free licenses for anything in GNU projects). Of course, if a project does not have copyright assignments and wishes to start using existing GPL code in GFDL manuals, or vice versa, they may then need to get permission for this from many different copyright holders, which could be at least as hard as getting permission from the FSF. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com