GNU GPL for doc -- Why?

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, IIDA Yosiaki wrote:

>     What I really want to say is that it would be better
>     applying permission notice than applying GNU GPL to
>     documentation.

That is up to the FSF - can't change it.  

>   Documentation has neither object code nor executable.
> So, the 3rd article of GNU GPL has no sense.

Hmmm, you have to write it using the Docbook language, run Jade or
other tools over it, and run a formatter backend.  Looks pretty much
like the usual way programs are created.

>   * Free documentation should also be copied and distributed
> by paper, without machine-readable source.  Permission
> notices on manuals published by FSF explicitly grant this

I think that the machine-readable source should accompany every
printed version - it is much easier to search for things using a
machine.


  Werner