Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?

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Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The GFDL is troubling to some, however, the GPL applies to *programs*
> so it is not an appropriate license for documentation.

If we consider autoconf.texi to be part of a program that generates
the documentation, what makes the GPL inappropriate?  In what sense
does the GPL provide inadequate protection here?

> It makes more sense to adjust GFDL so it is not so controversial

I understand that's been tried, so far unsuccessfully.  I don't know
the details, though.


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