License of RosettaCode examples (for bearophile:-)

[Iain Buclaw]

On Tuesday, 17 September 2013 at 11:04:13 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> This message is especially for bearophile, but applies to 
> anyone posting examples on RosettaCode :-)
>
> Can I ask you to clarify your licensing intentions for these 
> examples?  By default all on RosettaCode is GNU Free 
> Documentation License, which does not really play in a friendly 
> way with ... just about any actual software license.
>
> I imagine that all these examples were posted with the 
> intention that they be used by others, but the default 
> RosettaCode situation makes that impossible without direct 
> permission.  So ... I'm asking. :-)
>

An example of what the situation is using GNU FDL - last time I 
checked material under the GNU FDL could not be put into GPL code 
and GPL code could not be put into a GNU FDL manual.  So watch 
out! :-)


Regards
Iain.