From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14092 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2008 16:31:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 14066 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Mar 2008 16:31:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:31:06 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A57D98119; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:31:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4215A9802B; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:31:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JWwWD-0006sE-GI; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:31:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:32:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Robert Dewar Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Wiki content license Message-ID: <20080305163101.GA26404@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Robert Dewar , gdb@sourceware.org References: <20080305161440.GA25369@caradoc.them.org> <47CEC8DA.6060204@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47CEC8DA.6060204@adacore.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-12-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-03/txt/msg00047.txt.bz2 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