From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3059 invoked by alias); 28 May 2010 00:32:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 3051 invoked by uid 22791); 28 May 2010 00:32:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (74.125.121.35) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 28 May 2010 00:32:31 +0000 Received: from hpaq7.eem.corp.google.com (hpaq7.eem.corp.google.com [172.25.149.7]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id o4S0WSnb004152 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 17:32:28 -0700 Received: from gyb13 (gyb13.prod.google.com [10.243.49.77]) by hpaq7.eem.corp.google.com with ESMTP id o4S0Vh02017288 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 17:32:27 -0700 Received: by gyb13 with SMTP id 13so699598gyb.11 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 17:32:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.167.35 with SMTP id p35mr912487ybe.55.1275006746452; Thu, 27 May 2010 17:32:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coign.google.com (adsl-71-133-8-30.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [71.133.8.30]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 22sm206390ywh.5.2010.05.27.17.32.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 27 May 2010 17:32:25 -0700 (PDT) To: Joern Rennecke Cc: Russ Allbery , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues References: <4BFC6EF0.4090908@codesourcery.com> <1274937022.3572.101.camel@glinka> <871vcxknoa.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> <20100527183911.yvguqgeog8gwss0c-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 02:51:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20100527183911.yvguqgeog8gwss0c-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> (Joern Rennecke's message of "Thu\, 27 May 2010 18\:39\:11 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-System-Of-Record: true X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00638.txt.bz2 Joern Rennecke writes: > Quoting Russ Allbery : > >> "Alfred M. Szmidt" 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