Re: [rfa] License clarification for observer.texi

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 18:18:35 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> Debian no longer permits the distribution of FDL'd works in the "main"
> distribution.

Ah, it's _that_ issue.

> 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.

Anyway, I'm uneasy about making such a change because of the Debian's
controversy.  When faced with issues like this (i.e. the same source
that is used to produce both code and documentation), RMS always said
that in practice this isn't a problem, since either the produced docs
or the produced code is of insignificant amount.  So if distributing
observers.h is somehow not an option, I think we should ask Richard
for guidance.