On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:55:35PM +0200, Florian Hars wrote:
> >Or get the permission of the ocaml manual authors for this modification. 
> 
> But even then you still cannot mix it with the GFDL bison manual. Or, at 
> least I would not want to try to figure out how to to that... Maybe if you 
> got INRIA's permission for your changes and then include it all as an 
> invariant section so that nobody would be forced to ask INRIA for 
> permission for further changes, since they would not be allowed anyway. But 
> this part is not "secondary" so it is debatable whether it could be an 
> invariant section.

Alternatively, the ocaml manual authors could relicence the parts under a GFDL
compatible licence, not that the GFDL with invariant part is a free licence
though, so you would really not gain much with that.

> Combining works under different free licenses is hard enough, trying it 
> with non-free licenses (whose flamewar/GR was that?) is worse.

Indeed. A general freeing of the ocaml documentation would be welcome here.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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