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Re: FDL for Snippets/Internals?


From: Graham Percival
Subject: Re: FDL for Snippets/Internals?
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 21:55:57 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:24:19PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 18. Mai 2010, um 21:53:17 schrieb Graham Percival:
> > I can't immediately find any notice for Internals, so let's just
> > make it public domain to avoid the hassle.  Unless you really
> > *want* to start modifying the scheme procedures that generate the
> > IR (which would be excellent if you were interested), in which
> > case we could make it FDL just to give you something to do.
> 
> Actually, the IR is a derivative work of the source code, so shouldn't it be 
> GPL, then?

It depends on how strong the term "derivation" is in whatever
legal jurisdiction would apply.  I'm not convinced that it would
necessarily be GPL, but to avoid yet more backseat lawyering,
sure, let's explicitly make Internals "GPLv3 or higher".

Cheers,
- Graham



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