On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Mark Mitchell <m...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > Joern Rennecke wrote: > >> Well, then we were still kind of hoping the FSF would come up with a >> useful policy that allows using copyrightable elements from the code >> to be used in its documentation, and vice versa. >> However, now it doesn't look like that such a policy is forthcoming in >> a timeframe relevant to current GCC development. > > I did get a response from RMS today, within about 24 hours of the mail I > sent him yesterday. But, the response was a request for more > information, not a commitment to doing anything.
Still good news. Would it help to include in this "more information" to emphasize that the issue is especially urgent for internals documentation? IMHO the problems Debian has with GFDL are important too, but for the FSF I think the "internals documentation" argument carries more weight. Ciao! Steven
