Re: libtool documentation license: Debian, the GFDL and the DFSG.

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:33:17PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
> 
> * Kurt Roeckx wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:06:41PM CET:
> > 
> > I'm asking if it would be possible to dual license the
> > documentation under the GPL, or some other license, so that it is
> > compatible with the DFSG.
> 
> While I would certainly favor such a solution, I must admit that I
> don't know what would be necessary in order to be possible.  Since
> copyright assignments are in place, FSF approval should suffice;
> is it likely that they would agree, though?  Who should one ask?
> It would probably be a good thing to also have at least the listed
> authors' agreement.

I know very little of how the FSF works.  From what I understand
the FSF is copyright holder, and all contributers have assigned
copyright to the FSF.  The copyright statement also only mentions
the FSF.

The documentation does mentions 4 authors.  It would be nice if
they could agree to it also.  But I have no idea what legal
rights they have to publish this under a different license.

So it looks to me that you need to talk to the FSF.  And I'm not
sure at all if they're going to be willing to do that.


Kurt