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Re: Documentation generated from sources proposal
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:12:25 -0600
- Subject: Re: Documentation generated from sources proposal
- References: <20091012161424.GA20603@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
Jan> May the GDB project start using some tool to format documentation
Jan> from the sources? One could move the appropriate parts of
Jan> gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo into gdb/*.c along the patches being
Jan> submitted, keeping in gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo only the abstract
Jan> parts in the future.
I would like to do this, but my understanding is that there is a
licensing problem, in that the source is GPL and the documentation is
GFDL. (Joseph Myers has mentioned this several times on the GCC lists.)
Until that is resolved I don't think any progress can be made here.
Apparently we got some kind of special permission for observer.texi, so
I suppose it is possible in principle.
Tom