Re: Documenting Gnome apps with the GPL

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 11:17:05AM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     But those pages are generated from the
>     source by pure mechanical processing (C comments -> SGML -> HTML) like
>     most of the GTK/GNOME API documentations. I don't see a good logical
>     reason to put what is simply a derived object from the source code under
>     a different (and potentially conflicting) Licence than the original product.
> 
> That point has some logic in it.  At the same time, it is very useful
> for this documentation to be available under a GFDL-compatible license
> so that people can merge text from it into manuals they are writing
> under the GFDL.  For this reason, it can in fact be a good idea
> to release the derived documentation under a license different from
> the source code.


  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 ?

   thanks,

Daniel

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