Re: Wiki content license

[Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I have added a license notice to the GDB Wiki, based on a discussion
> between Micah Cowan (wget maintainer) and Brett Smith (FSF license
> compliance).  It's appended below.  The short version is that it lets
> us use future text from the wiki in the manual directly, although for
> large sections the FSF still recommends we get a copyright assignment.
> Code will still need assignment.
> 
> Of course, because I added this to an existing Wiki, the "all content"
> statement is not strictly true - you can't retroactively apply a
> notice that way.  I'm not sure what to do about that.  The only
> significant content that applies to are the plotting and STL macro
> packages, which are code rather than data anyway, so I don't see a
> big problem.  If the owners of those packages object to the license
> notice / assignment please let me know.
> 
> ====
> All content (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation. For terms of use,
> redistribution, and modification, please see the WikiLicense page.
> 
> 
> License for GDB Wiki content
> 
> 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???)
> 
> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this content
> under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
> any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
> Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.
> 
> 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.
> 
> We grant you back all your rights under copyright, including the
> rights to copy, modify, and redistribute your contributions.
> ====
>