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Re: Manual licenses
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Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: Manual licenses |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:24:09 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) |
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.