Re: possible license issue (documentation generated from source) in MELT branch of GCC

2010-05-31 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 22:40 -0700, Joe Buck wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 01:39:44AM -0700, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: ... I was told that generating a *texi file from (GPLv3+ licensed, FSF copyrighted) source code could be incompatible with the GFDL license of gccint.texi. The SC is

Re: possible license issue (documentation generated from source) in MELT branch of GCC

2010-05-31 Thread Robert Dewar
Basile Starynkevitch wrote: To my greatest extremely positive surprise, I got today an answer from the FSF (I really am very happy of such a quick answer)! I hope it OK to cite here part of the reply I've got to my question [gnu.org #579118] to licens...@fsf.org since Karl Berry replied to me

Re: possible license issue (documentation generated from source) in MELT branch of GCC

2010-05-31 Thread Mark Mitchell
Basile Starynkevitch wrote: To my greatest extremely positive surprise, I got today an answer from the FSF (I really am very happy of such a quick answer)! I hope it OK to cite here part of the reply I've got to my question [gnu.org #579118] to licens...@fsf.org since Karl Berry replied to

Re: possible license issue (documentation generated from source) in MELT branch of GCC

2010-05-31 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 12:51 -0400, Robert Dewar wrote: Basile Starynkevitch wrote: To my greatest extremely positive surprise, I got today an answer from the FSF (I really am very happy of such a quick answer)! I hope it OK to cite here part of the reply I've got to my question [gnu.org

Re: possible license issue (documentation generated from source) in MELT branch of GCC

2010-05-31 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 22:46 +0200, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: I did wrote on http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-05/msg02442.html about the patch I intend to apply to the MELT branch (changing copyright notice of gcc/melt/warmelt*.melt files there). I also emailed k...@gnu.org about

possible license issue (documentation generated from source) in MELT branch of GCC

2010-05-29 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
Dear Sir, [adressed to licens...@fsf.org g...@gcc.gnu.org] [I assume you understand both GPL vs GFDL licenses software architecture] I am a (write after approval) contributor to GCC, and the author of the MELT branch of GCC (on which I am working since 2008 at least). So far, I am the only

Re: possible license issue (documentation generated from source) in MELT branch of GCC

2010-05-29 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:39 +0200, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: Dear Sir, [adressed to licens...@fsf.org g...@gcc.gnu.org] Apparently, some human at FSF got my email. An automaton send me: There is no need to reply to this message right now. Your request has been assigned an ID of

Re: possible license issue (documentation generated from source) in MELT branch of GCC

2010-05-29 Thread Joe Buck
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 01:39:44AM -0700, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: ... I was told that generating a *texi file from (GPLv3+ licensed, FSF copyrighted) source code could be incompatible with the GFDL license of gccint.texi. The SC is trying to work something out with RMS on this (more