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Re: Documentation generated from sources proposal
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:12:25 -0600
>
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Jan> May the GDB project start using some tool to format documentation
> Jan> from the sources? One could move the appropriate parts of
> Jan> gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo into gdb/*.c along the patches being
> Jan> submitted, keeping in gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo only the abstract
> Jan> parts in the future.
>
> I would like to do this, but my understanding is that there is a
> licensing problem, in that the source is GPL and the documentation is
> GFDL. (Joseph Myers has mentioned this several times on the GCC lists.)
Then how come libiberty and other packages do that?
I'd suggest to clear this up with RMS.
> Apparently we got some kind of special permission for observer.texi, so
> I suppose it is possible in principle.
observer.texi is not documentation, it's code written in Texinfo.