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Re: Wiki content license
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:22:50AM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
>> The Free Software Foundation holds the copyright for all GDB code and
>> documentation. If you make significant contributions to the wiki that
>> might be useful in the official GDB documentation or source code,
>> please leave your contact information so we can arrange that if we
>> want to use your work in GDB.
>
> A bit awkward wording, what exactly is "that" (significant contributions,
> official GDB documentation, source code are
> the only antecedants???)
"holds the copyright". As I said, I got this wording from the FSF;
I'd rather leave it alone.
>> Copyright Assignment for Wiki Changes
>>
>> By contributing to any page on this wiki, you agree to assign
>> copyright for your contribution to the Free Software Foundation. The
>> Free Software Foundation promises to always use either a verbatim
>> copying license or a free documentation license when publishing your
>> contribution.
>
> Does this apply to code? If so, it is a bit informal, and seems
> to contract para 1.
That's why I said we couldn't use this to incorporate code from the
wiki into GPL'd pieces of GDB.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery