Re: Documenting Gnome apps with the GPL

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:03:01AM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote:
>       Hum, I see. Did you try to compile such a list of GFDL-compatible for merging
>     Licences ? And of course this raises the important point:
>        Are the GPL and LGPL themselves GFDL-compatible license ?
> 
> They are not compatible with the GFDL.  That is why it is important
> to release the documentation extracted from the source code doc strings
> explicitly under the GFDL.

  Hum, then I would rather suggest to not rush switching to GFDL and
instead try to check first whether people providing the GNOME code are
fine with relicencing the extracted informations under a different licence
(or fix the GFDL if this is an option).

Daniel

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