Re: GUADEC: longish account of things discussed

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Telsa Gwynne <hobbit@aloss.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> 	o We all seemed to like the Free Documentation Licence from
>     GNU. Suggestion that we use it ourselves with strong hints in
>     the handbook that others do too unless there's a really good
>     reason we haven't thought of not to.
> 	- Sidenote to that, from my husband, who has been messing
>     around with DocBook and some of GNOME's "generate docs from code
>     comments" stuff: you can't use it for auto-generated stuff like
>     he's been doing with the Linux kernel. This won't affect those
>     of us writing user docs, but it might be relevant for people
>     documenting code and APIs.
> 

Can you explain this more? The problem with autogenerated docs isn't
immediately obvious to me.

Is it that the FDL applies to the source code of the document, and in
this case the source code of the document is under the GPL?

Havoc