From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: "Downing, Thomas" <Thomas.Downing@ipc.com>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, david-b@pacbell.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GFDL in the kernel tree
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:21:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030616192146.GR6754@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <170EBA504C3AD511A3FE00508BB89A9202301AF6@exnanycmbx4.ipc.com>
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:45:55PM -0400, Downing, Thomas wrote:
> IMBMSB is the GFDL the 'Gnu Free Documentation License'?
> Has Gnu produced a doc license that is incompatible with GPL?
> Looks like it...but I can understand the purpose behind the
> GFDL.
>
> Seems like GNU needs a simple doc license a la BSD doc license
> to fill the gap between a formally published doc 'GFDL' and the
> sort of stuff in the kernel tree 'BSDish'.
List name is linux-kernel. Linux is not GNU, so kindly take that
to appropriate place (gnu.misc.discuss, alt.tasteless, whatever).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-16 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-16 18:45 Downing, Thomas
2003-06-16 19:21 ` viro [this message]
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2003-06-15 13:07 Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-15 16:05 ` David Brownell
2003-06-15 17:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-15 16:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-15 17:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-16 15:38 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-06-16 16:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
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