Re: Eligibility of CC-BY-SA for documentation within a software project

[Ineiev]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 04:00:40PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote:
>     cc-by-sa became gplv3 compatible. 
> 
> Cool! I forgot that.
> 
>     Still not gfdl compatible.
>     
> https://creativecommons.org/2015/10/08/cc-by-sa-4-0-now-one-way-compatible-with-gplv3/
> 
>     In that light, I hope it would be allowed.
> 
> I fear it's still an exception that rms would have to approve :(. 
> As far as I can recall, we are not allowed to accept gpl for manuals,
> although that seems draconian and I can't find any explicit statement
> about it right now :(.

 https://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php:
"For manuals, we recommend GNU FDL version X-or-later,
 where X is the latest released version of the FDL;
 other licensing compatible with that is acceptable".

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