Re: gtk-doc documentation

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Jochen Voss wrote:

> Hello Damon,
>
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 06:44:58PM +0000, Damon Chaplin wrote:
>  
>
> > The issue has been raised before:
> >  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2003-April/msg00019.html
> >    
> This thread did not cover the problem that you cannot incorporate chunks
> from a GFDL licensed text into a GPL licensed program.  This would prevent
> me from using the code examples, and it would also prevent me from
> incorporating parts of the documentation into comments/help texts, etc.
>  
This problem sounds solvable by explicitly licensing any code samples in 
the documentation under some other license.  In fact, the GFDL even 
recommends this at the end:

  If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
free software license, such as the GNU General Public License, to
permit their use in free software.

Of course, something like the X license might be better for code samples.

James.