Re: Using the GFDL properly
- From: Ali Abdin <ALIABDIN aucegypt edu>
- To: Henry House <hajhouse houseag com>
- Cc: Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>, Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>, GDP <gnome-doc-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Using the GFDL properly
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:39:49 +0300
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Henry House wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:44:30PM -0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> > On the other hand, including the license with *every document* is
> > unrealistic. Do we really want 100 copies of GDP distributed
> > with GNOME?=20
>
> If you will forgive my unvited entry into this discussion, I wish to point
> out that wording and spirit of the requirement seems to be to maintain a co=
> py
> of the license with each *indivisible unit* of distribution. Would not the
> requirement be fullfilled by requiring distributors' documentation packages
> to depend on a base package that contains the GFDL and to transparently
> (e.g., by a symbolic link) incorporate the copy of the GFDL provided by that
> base package into each piece of documentation?
I think it is best to do it the same way most software does it. Include
(cut&paste) the GFDL as a _COMMENT_ into the Doc (and/or in the
<legalnotice> tag) and have a COPYING file in the doc directory (that
does not get installed).
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