From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@embecosm.com>
Cc: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 02:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mcr1vcwvpbe.fsf@dhcp-172-17-9-151.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100527183911.yvguqgeog8gwss0c-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> (Joern Rennecke's message of "Thu\, 27 May 2010 18\:39\:11 -0400")
Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@embecosm.com> writes:
> Quoting Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>:
>
>> "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> It should be noted that Debian considers the GFDL a non-free
>>> /software/ license; which it is, but then the GFDL is not a software
>>> license to begin with.
>>
>> The official Debian position is that the distinction between a software
>> license and a non-software license for the sort of material distributed in
>> Debian is an artificial and meaningless distinction because of, among
>> other reasons, exactly the use case being discussed in this thread.
>
> It is relevant that the invariant sections are not executable code;
> since they do not affect the execution of the program, they are only
> one step further from an author attribution notice that may not be
> removed.
> The latter are allowed under GPLv3 as an Additional Term
> under 7 b - does that make GPLv3 w/ author attribution similarly
> non-free in the eyes of Debian?
I know it's awfully tempting, but please: no arguments about whether
GFDL is a free license on the gcc mailing list.
Ian
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2010-05-26 4:19 Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 7:25 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-26 15:42 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-05-26 16:03 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 18:10 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-26 18:27 ` Richard Kenner
2010-05-26 18:42 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 21:06 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-26 21:07 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 21:42 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-26 21:26 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-26 21:28 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 22:54 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-05-26 23:12 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 21:37 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-05-27 5:10 ` Russ Allbery
2010-05-26 19:16 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-26 16:08 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-26 18:09 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-26 18:12 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-26 23:12 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-05-26 8:04 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-27 7:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-05-27 8:04 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-27 8:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-05-26 21:15 ` Matthias Klose
2010-05-26 21:42 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-05-26 21:51 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-05-27 0:01 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2010-05-27 5:39 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-05-27 11:46 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-05-27 17:20 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-05-27 22:51 ` Russ Allbery
2010-05-28 0:32 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-05-28 2:51 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2010-07-15 0:23 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-07-22 23:22 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-22 23:28 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-07-22 23:36 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-23 0:27 ` Joe Buck
2010-07-23 2:18 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-07-23 3:11 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-23 8:23 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-07-23 15:59 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-23 16:34 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-07-23 16:42 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 0:50 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-07-27 1:26 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 1:37 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-27 15:54 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 17:41 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-07-27 17:45 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 21:20 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2010-07-27 18:08 ` Joe Buck
2010-07-27 18:09 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-27 20:25 ` Richard Guenther
2010-07-27 21:39 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-28 21:00 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-07-28 21:17 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-28 22:08 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-07-28 22:30 ` Richard Guenther
2010-07-29 7:41 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-07-29 8:36 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-07-29 8:55 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-29 9:23 ` Toon Moene
2010-07-29 12:47 ` Richard Kenner
2010-07-29 14:11 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-07-29 14:25 ` Richard Kenner
2010-07-29 14:33 ` Jeff Law
2010-07-29 14:40 ` Richard Kenner
2010-07-30 11:02 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-30 11:01 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-30 18:08 ` Toon Moene
2010-07-29 14:53 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-30 11:03 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-30 14:29 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-07-30 15:54 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-07-31 0:10 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-31 3:11 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-07-31 12:24 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-31 0:08 ` Robert Dewar
2010-07-31 0:16 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-08-02 23:13 ` Diego Novillo
2010-08-02 23:16 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-02 23:21 ` Diego Novillo
2010-08-02 23:23 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-08-02 23:34 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-02 23:45 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-08-03 0:57 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-03 2:08 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-08-03 18:46 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-15 19:16 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 16:17 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-15 16:11 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 16:19 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-15 19:47 ` Joel Sherrill
2010-08-15 20:21 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-16 12:10 ` Miles Bader
2010-08-17 3:19 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-08-17 3:56 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-17 10:41 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-08-03 9:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-03 0:51 ` Paul Koning
2010-08-03 16:20 ` Joe Buck
2010-08-03 18:49 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-03 21:45 ` Steven Bosscher
2010-08-15 16:17 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 17:24 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-15 16:12 ` Richard Kenner
2010-08-15 16:17 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 16:16 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-16 20:53 ` Jonathan Corbet
2010-08-03 19:58 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-08-04 7:23 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-08-04 13:10 ` Diego Novillo
2010-08-04 7:21 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2010-08-04 16:46 ` Joe Buck
2010-08-04 17:35 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-08-04 18:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 18:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 18:56 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-08-04 18:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 19:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 20:03 ` Jonathan Wakely
2010-08-04 20:25 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-08-04 20:52 ` Diego Novillo
2010-08-04 21:12 ` Richard Guenther
2010-08-04 22:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-04 23:08 ` Joe Buck
2010-08-05 3:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-08-05 3:09 ` Jonathan Wakely
2010-08-04 18:48 ` Joe Buck
2010-08-04 20:42 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-08-03 18:36 ` Robert Dewar
2010-08-04 0:08 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-27 3:31 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-29 20:20 Brian Makin
2010-07-29 21:06 ` Joe Buck
2010-08-04 20:03 Brian Makin
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