[bug-diffutils] GFDL and invariants [was: bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check]

[Eric Blake]

On 08/04/2011 10:02 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 08/04/11 08:49, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Do you need a policy for dual-licensing? I think it would be just
> > enough that you are allowed to dual-license it
>
> Well, the coding standards say simply
> "Manuals should use the GNU Free Documentation License."
> I would have real qualms about dual-licensing with
> Joe Random License, but it may be that the GPL is OK.
> I'll ask.

In the past, when this issue was raised, the Debian community deemed 
patches such as the following as sufficient to resolve the licensing 
qualms, and the change complied with the GNU Coding Standards:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/m4.git/commit?id=ee1e92ec

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