From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Wiki content license
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305163101.GA26404@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CEC8DA.6060204@adacore.com>
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:22:50AM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
>> The Free Software Foundation holds the copyright for all GDB code and
>> documentation. If you make significant contributions to the wiki that
>> might be useful in the official GDB documentation or source code,
>> please leave your contact information so we can arrange that if we
>> want to use your work in GDB.
>
> A bit awkward wording, what exactly is "that" (significant contributions,
> official GDB documentation, source code are
> the only antecedants???)
"holds the copyright". As I said, I got this wording from the FSF;
I'd rather leave it alone.
>> Copyright Assignment for Wiki Changes
>>
>> By contributing to any page on this wiki, you agree to assign
>> copyright for your contribution to the Free Software Foundation. The
>> Free Software Foundation promises to always use either a verbatim
>> copying license or a free documentation license when publishing your
>> contribution.
>
> Does this apply to code? If so, it is a bit informal, and seems
> to contract para 1.
That's why I said we couldn't use this to incorporate code from the
wiki into GPL'd pieces of GDB.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-05 16:23 Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-03-05 16:24 ` Robert Dewar
2008-03-05 16:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-03-05 16:30 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2008-03-05 16:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-03-05 16:31 ` Robert Dewar
2008-03-05 17:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-03-06 16:31 ` Robert Dewar
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