Re: FDL blurb

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From: "David C. Mason" <dcm@redhat.com>
Date: 01 Apr 2000 14:26:23 -0500
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Dan Mueth <d-mueth@uchicago.edu> writes:

> GDP folks,
> 
> We need to come up with a standard <legalnotice>/FDL blurb to use in
> our documents.  Below I pasted a copy of what I've been putting in
> my GDP documents.  Could everybody look at this and voice your
> opinions about if/how this needs to be changed.  Let's converge on
> something pretty soon so we can use the same thing in all our docs
> for 1.2.


>     <legalnotice> <para> Permission is granted to copy, distribute
>     and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free
>     Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version
>     published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
>     Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
>     Texts.  A copy of the license is available from the GNU
>     Foundation and can be viewed <ulink
>     url="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"
>     type="http">online</ulink>.  > </para>
> 

This is fine with the exception of the fact that later we can link
easily to a local copy of the license.


>       <para> UNIX is a trademark of X/Open Group.</para> <para>
>       Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.</para> <para> X Window
>       System is a trademark of X Consortium, Inc.</para> <para>
>       Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corp.</para> >
>       </legalnotice>

Prepare for flamage - we went over this on this list once - we are not
going to give trademark notices like this. We decided to take th
O'Reilly approach and Capitalize the trademark name and then have a
paragraph stating something like 'all trademarks are covered by their
respective owners' - but better, we need to look at O'reilly's method.

Dave