Re: [security-discuss] GFDL holds the answer about fancy javascript (was: gnuradio project..)

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

What the actual license should be of something is not for you to
decide, that is up to St. IGNUcius and the maintainer of the software.
How about we leave it to them to say what should or shouldn't be?

   >    Source code is in gnuradio-3.7.10.1/docs/doxygen/other, if I
   >    am no mistaken.
   > 
   >    And GNU radio package is to be found here:
   >    http://gnuradio.org/releases/gnuradio/gnuradio-3.7.10.1.tar.gz
   > 
   >    Source code of documentation is not in simple format, it seems to
   >    be Doxygen format. Doxygen extracts documentation from C++ files.
   > 
   > What is "simple format"?

   The reference is to the well drafted Information for Maintainers of
   GNU Software that is available here:
   https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html

There is no reference to "simple format" in that document.


You clearly have some agenda, with this continued misrepresentation,
misreading, and continued imagined ideas of what the GFDL says.

   Such files are not transparent, as there are limitations imposed to
   read the documentation. One such limitation is that one need to
   install the Doxygen software, to process the source code to read
   the documentation, to generate the HTML to read the documentation.

Doygen input falls under the category of "transparant copy".  

   “Transparent” copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,

Doxygen is machine-readable.

   represented in a format whose specification is available to the
   general public,

Doxygen syntax, and format is specified in the Doxygen manual which is
available to the general public.

   that is suitable for revising the document straightforwardly with
   generic text editors

Doxygen is a plain text format with some syntactical elements like GNU
Texinfo, LaTeX, TeX, etc.

   or (for images composed of pixels) generic paint programs or (for
   drawings) some widely available drawing editor,

That depends on the actual manual content, but the images in GNU radio
are editable using GIMP (they are PNG files).  Doxygen, like Texinfo,
references the file using the \image command (i.e. @image command in
Texinfo).

   and that is suitable for input to text formatters or for automatic
   translation to a variety of formats suitable for input to text
   formatters.

The input is suitable for the Doxygen processing utility to output
other formats -- for example HTML.  Doxygen is also free software.