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

[Paul Eggert]

Bruce Korb <address@hidden> writes:

> What if you simply stated:
>
>    Any programming examples incorporated into this document are
>    hereby released to the public domain and are free for anybody to
>    use any way they like.

That's too broad, as some of the examples are dozens of lines long.

Short examples can already be copied without restriction, under fair
use.  So in practice the license matters only when someone copies a
nontrivial number of lines.