Re: GDFL vs GPL (Was Re: [Bashdb-devel] Upcoming changes for potential Debian release)

[Matthias K. <do...@cs...>]

R. Bernstein writes:
> Matthias Klose writes:
>  > I actually proposed to relicense or dual license the docs. The latter
>  > would have the advantage, that it could be merged back to the bash
>  > docs which have the same license for the docs (GPL)
> 
> I've solicited the help of someone more competent at this than I. If
> there are no "Invariant Sections" then GDFL is the same as GPL. Does
> Debain have a problem with documents that are GDFL that don't have any
> invariant sections? 

yes, this is certainly the important point. some Debian people even
are unhappy wit the cover texts, but there's not yet a final
statement/policy.