From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7782 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2008 16:23:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 7764 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Mar 2008 16:23:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:23:10 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E982AAA1B for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:23:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ZGtG1YAZ9d4H for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:23:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (nile.gnat.com [205.232.38.5]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280742AA9DB for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:23:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <47CEC8DA.6060204@adacore.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:24:00 -0000 From: Robert Dewar User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Wiki content license References: <20080305161440.GA25369@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20080305161440.GA25369@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00044.txt.bz2 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. > ==== >