From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17365 invoked by alias); 9 May 2006 20:29:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 17354 invoked by uid 22791); 9 May 2006 20:29:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from romy.inter.net.il (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 May 2006 20:29:24 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-156-30.inter.net.il [80.230.156.30]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id EDO12246 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 9 May 2006 23:28:54 +0300 (IDT) Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 20:29:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20060509192721.GA13403@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Tue, 9 May 2006 15:27:21 -0400) Subject: Re: [rfa] License clarification for observer.texi Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20060508210440.GA18323@nevyn.them.org> <20060508221835.GA20262@nevyn.them.org> <20060509125922.GA2808@nevyn.them.org> <20060509192721.GA13403@nevyn.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00180.txt.bz2 > Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 15:27:21 -0400 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > I'm not sure what I need to ask the FSF now? I suggest to ask whether it is okay to add to observers.texi the simplified copyright blurb. This is not a trivial question, since observers.texi is covered by the GFDL license of the manual (see below). > I'd like to set the > license on the file to one which is (A) acceptable to the FSF, (B) > legally valid to include in the manual, and (C) legally valid to link > with GDB - that's pretty unambiguous and I think we've found such a > license. Yes, we both agree that it is probably okay to make this change. However, we are changing the distribution copyright of observers.texi not only for the Debian distro, but for the FSF distro as well. Since the FSF is the copyright holder, I don't think we can change the copyright without their consent, even if it's perfectly legal. Btw, it may be that the current form of observers.texi is not legally safe, either, since it currently has no copyright blurb at all. By contrast, the *.texi files that comprise the Emacs manual each have the following text at their beginning: @c This is part of the Emacs manual. @c Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, @c 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. and the full copyright is in emacs.texi.