GNU GPL & GNU FDL

Simo Sorce simo.sorce at xsec.it
Tue Aug 13 07:25:42 UTC 2002


On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 08:29, Tuomas Pellonpera wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> If I wanted to use excerpts of a manual licensed under GNU GPL in order to
> use them in my manual that I would like to publish under GNU Free
> Documentation License (FDL), would I have to publish my manual under GNU
> GPL?
> 
> I thought this would be an interesting question to ask. ;-)

Ask the author written permission to use FDL instead of GPL, this way
you are sure it's all ok.

Simo.

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