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Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract



On Feb 09, Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote:

> The binutils package generates part of its documentation from header 
> files in order to get the structures and constants right. The headers 
> are GPLed, the compiled documentation is under the GFDL. For this 
> relicensing to happen, one must be the copyright holder, or have an 
> appropriate license, which after a quick glance does not seem to be 
> there. Thus, only the FSF may build the binutils package. I'd be very 
> surprised if that were to meet your definition of free software.
Did you ask FSF what they think about this situation?

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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