[Savannah-hackers] Fwd: Re: [gnu.org #208970] Dual Licenses for Examples Under FDL

[Michael J. Flickinger]

FYI

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Subject: Re: [gnu.org #208970] Dual Licenses for Examples Under FDL
Date: Monday 23 August 2004 03:59 pm
From: "address@hidden via RT" <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden

Simply place an additional notice in the same section as your other
license notices:

Code examples included in this document are free software; you can
redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

These examples are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with these examples; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 15:24, Michael J. Flickinger via RT wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How should examples of code which are released under the FDL, in
> documentation, also be released under the GPL?
>
> Is there a preferred way to do this?

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