Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003
Great, the debian-legal discussions moved to debian-devel.
Quoting Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>:
> Now consider that most or all of the FSF documentation for their GPL'ed
> software is released under the GFDL. The licenses are incompatible so
> someone who forks a project cannot cut and paste text between the manual
> and the software that it documents. Why don't they use the GPL for the
> docs? What do they gain? They gain an invariant section about free
> software; very ironic isn't it.
Pasting a piece of manual in a program doesn't magically turn the
documentation into a program; so this is not about mixing too
different codes. Just like, inserting a piece of code into a manual
doesn't turn the piece of code into documentation where the documentation
license applies.
See John Goerzen's message "Inconsistencies in our approach" in
debian-legal.
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Jérôme Marant
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