From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfa] License clarification for observer.texi
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 18:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud5en9ght.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060509040545.GA26150@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Tue, 9 May 2006 00:05:45 -0400)
> Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 00:05:45 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> > > I am not permitted to include GFDL documentation in the main
> > > tarball, but I must include observers.texi, in order to build GDB.
> >
> > Why can't you simply include the generated observers.h in the main
> > tarball? It has the right license.
>
> Because that would, in my opinion, violate at least the spirit of the
> GPL. "Preferred source for modification" is not that file, but the
> manual.
I don't see how it would violate the spirit of the GPL. That spirit
is, in a nutshell, to let users have full freedom to modify the
program. By distributing observers.h you don't hamper that freedom in
any way.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-08 21:04 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-08 21:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-08 22:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-09 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-09 4:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-09 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-05-09 19:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-09 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-09 19:35 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-09 12:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-09 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-09 19:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-09 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-09 20:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-10 3:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-10 3:52 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-10 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-09 20:50 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-10 14:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-10 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-10 18:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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