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Re: Documentation generated from sources proposal
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:25:01 -0600
>
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Apparently we got some kind of special permission for observer.texi, so
> >> I suppose it is possible in principle.
>
> Eli> observer.texi is not documentation, it's code written in Texinfo.
>
> We were talking about the license, not its inherent nature.
> It is GFDL plus an exception.
The exception was possible _because_ observer.texi is not
documentation at all. If it were a real manual, the FSF would never
give any waivers.