Re: [Groff] GPL or FDL

[Bernd Warken]

> Von: "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden>
>
>
> >> I will move all man-pages where I'm among the authors from FDL to
> >> GPL.
> >
> > Out of curiousity, can you do that without the other authors' explicit
> > agreement?
>
> Actually, the authors have assigned the copyright to the FSF, so Bernd
> has to ask the FSF (and only the FSF) how to proceed. I'm not sure
> that they will agree to use the GPL, since documentation is not
> software.
>
> Bernd, maybe you should look at other GNU projects (e.g. `coreutils')
> to check how they resolve this issue.
>
>
> Werner
>
>
> PS: I'll write to Karl Berry for clarification too.

I wrote to address@hidden
`coreutils' uses FDL.

Bernd Warken