I am not so sure about that. Is it safe to assume that the author of a file 
that clearly states to be under the GPL is also giving permission to 
release a derivative work under a dual license? 

El jueves, 8 de diciembre de 2016, 21:52:07 (UTC+1), Dima Pasechnik 
escribió:
>
>
>
> On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 8:41:55 PM UTC, mmarco wrote:
>>
>> If I am not mistaken, the reference manual is automatically built from 
>> the docstrings in the source code files... which are GPL. How does that 
>> affect the resulting documentation?
>>
>
> well, we merely do a kind of dual license for the part of the source that 
> are docstrings.
> This should not be a problem, IMHO.
>  
>
>>
>> El jueves, 8 de diciembre de 2016, 17:17:19 (UTC+1), Dima Pasechnik 
>> escribió:
>>>
>>> As pointed out in 
>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/n0B16q4h2c8/iHhDLRD5BwAJ
>>> various places in src/doc/ mention different (incompatible, according to 
>>> Debian people) licenses
>>> for the documentation.
>>>
>>> We ought to do something about it.
>>>
>>>  GFDL is only mentioned 
>>> in src/doc/en/reference/history_and_license/index.rst
>>> while CC-BY-SA v3.0 is mentioned in src/doc/en/reference/index.rst
>>>
>>> I propose to make everything CC-BY-SA v3.0 which seems to be more 
>>> reasonable one.
>>>
>>> Dima
>>>
>>>
>>>

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