On 02/06/2010 00:31, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> At this point, RMS has said, answered this question from me:
>
> "Can we take comments (not code) from FSF-owned GPL'd code and process
> them in some way that results in them being included in a GFDL'd manual?"
>
> by saying, in part:
>
> "If Texinfo text is included the .h files specifically to be copied into
> a manual, it is ok to for you copy that text into a manual and release
> the manual under the GFDL."
>
> In context, "you" means "the GCC maintainers" and the permission would
> be limited only to changes contributed to the FSF. This is specifically
> not permission for random people to do even this outside the context of
> the FSF repository.
So to be clear: would redistributors be in breach if they were to ship the
generated docs in their binary packages?
cheers,
DaveK
