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Re: GPL vs GFDL in generated files
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at elta dot co dot il>
- To: ac131313 at redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 01:17:45 +0300
- Subject: Re: GPL vs GFDL in generated files
- References: <3EEF8332.6050009@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:08:02 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
>
> ``I am not a lawyer''.
Neither am I.
> A longer term GDB plan is to use a common source for things like
> gdbarch.[ch] (architecture vector source code) and gdbin.texinfo
> (architecture vector documentation). GCC are now talking about doing
> something similar. One issue that came up during their discussions was
> the question of the GPL and GFDL being ``compatible'' - can a common
> file be used to generate both.
I would think that if only a part of the manual is produced from that
common source, there should be no problem, but I'm not sure.
How about asking RMS and/or the FSF lawyers?