Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?

2004-12-19 Thread Paul Eggert
Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Autoconf.texi is not part of a program. The texinfo.tex file could be > (weakly) construed to be part of a program since it defines > macros. But autoconf.texi also defines and uses macros. And even if it didn't, one can think of the non-macro part

Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?

2004-12-19 Thread Paul Eggert
Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One approach that Autoconf could take is to provide a special > exception so that any sample code copied from the documentation is > licensed under the GPL or LGPL rather than GFDL. Thanks for this suggestion. At the end of this message is a proposed

Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?

2004-12-19 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Paul> * doc/autoconf.texi (@copying): Allow programs in this Paul> manual to be copied under the GPL. [...] Sounds sensible to me. The last sentence of fdl.texi is If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we

Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?

2004-12-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Paul Eggert wrote: Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Autoconf.texi is not part of a program. The texinfo.tex file could be (weakly) construed to be part of a program since it defines macros. But autoconf.texi also defines and uses macros. And even if it didn't, one

Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?

2004-12-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Paul Eggert wrote: Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: One approach that Autoconf could take is to provide a special exception so that any sample code copied from the documentation is licensed under the GPL or LGPL rather than GFDL. Thanks for this suggestion. At the e

Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?

2004-12-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Paul> * doc/autoconf.texi (@copying): Allow programs in this Paul> manual to be copied under the GPL. [...] Sounds sensible to me. The last sentence of fdl.texi is If your document contains no

Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?

2004-12-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Paul Eggert wrote: > > One approach that Autoconf could take is to provide a special > > exception so that any sample code copied from the documentation is > > licensed under the GPL or LGPL rather than GFDL. > > Thanks for this suggestion. At the end of this message is a pro

Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?

2004-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> One approach that Autoconf could take is to provide a special >> exception so that any sample code copied from the documentation is >> licensed under the GPL or

Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?

2004-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> One approach that Autoconf could take is to provide a special exception >> so that any sample code copied from the documentation is licensed under >> the GPL or LGPL rather than GFDL. > Thanks for this sugges

Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?

2004-12-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Roger Leigh wrote: > However, the manual is still licensed under the terms of the GFDL, a > licence which is not considered to meet the requirements of the Debian > Free Software Guidelines. Therefore I believe it is not possible to Debian-legal (and many Debian developers) c

Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?

2004-12-19 Thread Bruce Korb
On Sunday 19 December 2004 08:49 am, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: What if you simply stated: Any programming examples incorporated into this document are hereby released to the public domain and are free for anybody to use any way they like.