From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19384 invoked by alias); 9 May 2006 03:32:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 19376 invoked by uid 22791); 9 May 2006 03:32:47 -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 03:32:45 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-241-162.inter.net.il [84.228.241.162]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id EDJ48712 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 9 May 2006 06:32:40 +0300 (IDT) Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 03:32:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20060508221835.GA20262@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Mon, 8 May 2006 18:18:35 -0400) Subject: Re: [rfa] License clarification for observer.texi Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20060508210440.GA18323@nevyn.them.org> <20060508221835.GA20262@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/msg00162.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 18:18:35 -0400 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > 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.