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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Documentation generated from sources proposal
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vdiktqmx.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091012182011.GA9395@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (Jan 	Kratochvil's message of "Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:20:11 +0200")

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

Jan> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:13:38 +0200, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> Sure you can.  But the comment would be under the GPL.  The resulting
>> manual (the GDB Internals manual, not the gdbint.texinfo source file)
>> could not be distributed under the GFDL.

Jan> I expected to start some new separate GDB Reference Manual with whatever
Jan> compliant license (therefore probably the GPLv3 one).

I imagine that the FSF would require us to GFDL any new manual.

I support this effort in general but it can't really be resolved here.

Jan> The new file format (such as gtk-doc output choices) would be difficult to
Jan> merge with existing gdbint texinfo source or its output formats.

I am purposely avoiding this discussion until the legal stuff is dealt
with :-)

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-12 16:14 Jan Kratochvil
2009-10-12 17:12 ` Tom Tromey
2009-10-12 17:16   ` Jan Kratochvil
2009-10-12 18:00     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-10-12 18:07       ` Jan Kratochvil
2009-10-12 18:13         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-10-12 18:20           ` Jan Kratochvil
2009-10-12 18:26             ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2009-10-12 18:30               ` Jan Kratochvil
2009-10-12 18:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-12 19:10     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-10-12 19:25     ` Tom Tromey
2009-10-12 20:23       ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-12 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-13  8:23   ` Jeremy Bennett
2009-10-13 18:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-13 19:13       ` Jan Kratochvil
2009-10-13 19:18         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-27 10:07 ` Mark Kettenis

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