Re: old and new GNU documentation licenses, and the some of the manuals to which they apply
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 04:06:01AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:08:18AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> > If the point is obvious, my apologies, but: If sufficiently motivated
> > people are annoyed by the ongoing conversion of GNU documentation to GFDL,
> > they may at any time fork the final non-GFDL version and maintain
> > derivative works (updated manuals) to benefit Debian and others.
>
> Yes, though it should be kept in mind that the GPL-incompatibility
> problem remains. We *still* won't be able to drop hunks of these
> manuals into their corresponding programs as on-line documentation,
> unless the same text happens to already exist somewhere else under the
> GNU GPL.
Couldn't one just package it up as a separate package? (apt-get install
gcc-doc or whatnot) In fact, they probably already are separate packages in
many cases.
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