Re: Auto-generated cross-references can be distributed under the GPL

2010-06-04 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Mark Mitchell wrote: > This explicit permission re. cross-references does not resolve the > question of auto-generating parts of GFDL manuals, such as those > containing documentation about target hooks or about command-line > options. (For target hooks, we might wish to consi

Auto-generated cross-references can be distributed under the GPL

2010-06-04 Thread Mark Mitchell
The FSF has approved the inclusion of automatically generated cross-reference information (such as that generated by Doxygen, Synopsis, or JavaDoc) in GCC, using GPLv3 for that documentation, rather than the GFDL. There was no license issue in this regard; the question was a policy question. In p