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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: jari.aalto@cante.net, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: gdb.1 - order options alphabetically in manual 	page
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sket299x.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090910225202.GN20694@adacore.com>

> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:52:02 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> > I'd say this was a non-copyrightable change, and thus acceptable.
> > http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html#Legally-Significant
> 
> I still wasn't sure from the section you are quoting that it was
> acceptable. Are you saying that the idea of ordering the description
> in alphabetical order is not copyrightable, and since there is only
> one way to change the documentation to implement that idea, it is
> obvious, and thus not copyrightable? Robert Dewar thinks that we should
> require a proper assignment to accept this change...

I agree with Daniel that reordering existing text does not need a
copyright assignment.  But if we are not sure, we can ask RMS.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-11  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-09 18:20 Jari Aalto
2009-09-10  1:08 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-10  1:32   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-09-10 22:52     ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-11  8:10       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-09-11 23:17         ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-12  8:31           ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-12 18:35             ` Joel Brobecker
2009-10-11 21:22               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-10-11 23:25                 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-16 15:49 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-16 17:23   ` Eli Zaretskii

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