Great, the debian-legal discussions moved to debian-devel. Quoting Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Now consider that most or all of the FSF documentation for their GPL'ed > software is released under the GFDL. The licenses are incompatible so > someone who forks a project cannot cut and paste text between the manual > and the software that it documents. Why don't they use the GPL for the > docs? What do they gain? They gain an invariant section about free > software; very ironic isn't it. Pasting a piece of manual in a program doesn't magically turn the documentation into a program; so this is not about mixing too different codes. Just like, inserting a piece of code into a manual doesn't turn the piece of code into documentation where the documentation license applies. See John Goerzen's message "Inconsistencies in our approach" in debian-legal. -- Jérôme Marant