Re: Manual licenses

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Each manual should contain a copy of the GFDL, because we want them
> to be separately distributable.
>
> Can people please work on that

Fixed.

> and the other points below?
>
>     A few other things I noticed, which may or may not be worth noting.
>     Several manuals have old dates on the cover page.  (Calc does, but I'm
>     going to remove that.)

Fixed.

>     The ERC manual is under the GFDL, but doesn't give a pointer to
>     a copy if it in the copyright notice.

Fixed.

>     A couple of manuals (dired-x, the faq) aren't under the GFDL.

I went ahead and relicensed dired-x.  Do we can to relicense the FAQ?
It seem to have a special-purpose license, and to be deliberately not
under the GFDL.

>     A couple of manuals (flymake, newsticker) don't have an "@insertcopying"
>     line in the title page, so the copyright doesn't appear when they're 
>     processed.  (I'd say the same about widget, but that doesn't have a
>     title page.)

Fixed.

>     A couple of manuals (pgg, url) have copyright notices which mention
>     that the GFDL is included as a section, but it isn't.

Fixed.