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Re: GFDL and incompatibility



Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> The text in the manual is usually not suitable for a doc string, and
> vice versa.  I don't copy text from the Emacs manual into a doc
> string, even though the FSF as copyright holder for both could do so.

The problem is that you can't even re-edit it into a doc string.
Anything that's a derivative work is out-of-bounds.

The GFDL forces a particular implementation of
program-with-documentation, and that's already a bug.  



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