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Re: [rfa] License clarification for observer.texi

> Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 00:05:45 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> > > I am not permitted to include GFDL documentation in the main
> > > tarball, but I must include observers.texi, in order to build GDB.
> > 
> > Why can't you simply include the generated observers.h in the main
> > tarball?  It has the right license.
> 
> Because that would, in my opinion, violate at least the spirit of the
> GPL.  "Preferred source for modification" is not that file, but the
> manual.

I don't see how it would violate the spirit of the GPL.  That spirit
is, in a nutshell, to let users have full freedom to modify the
program.  By distributing observers.h you don't hamper that freedom in
any way.
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