On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 15:19 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>
> > On Monday 11 July 2005 16:50, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> > > Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > > > I guess that, apart from the legal discussion of whether this enough,
> > > > such a statement would not apply to existing content. It was certainly
> > > > not my intention to sign over the various Wiki contributions I have
> > > > made to the FSF.
> > >
> > > This strikes me as shortsighted.
> >
> > Call it what you will. For me it is a matter of choice and freedom.
> >
> > > If we're getting into a situation
> > > where we can't freely move documentation from one place to another,
> > > we're shooting ourselves in the foot.
> >
> > We already can't do that. We can't move documentation from the manual
> > into the code, and vice versa, because of the GPL vs. GFDL issue. It
> > is that kind of thing that completely takes away any motivation I might
> > otherwise have to contribute to the manual.
>
> 1. If GCC developers wish to move documentation from the GPL code to the
> GFDL manuals, or vice versa, what procedures need to be followed?
>
> 2. Do existing GCC copyright assignments cover the GCC Wiki
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/>?
>
No, and again, i don't understand why we can't do what *everyone else on
the planet who transfers docs between the two do* and just make users
agree that they are giving the right to do that when they submit
contributions to the wiki.
See, for example, the wikipedia contribution page.
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