Re: Proper use of FDL

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

Dan: 
I believe everyone agrees to have FDL as a separate doc at
"gnome-help:fdl", so let us just do it and update the templates. 

However: do we still legally need to include a copy of FDL in every
package (like the COPYING file), in case someone distibutes this
package separately  from  gnome-docs (or whatever package will include
fdl.sgml)? 

Sasha

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:01:13AM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We have been pretty bad about using the FDL properly in the past.  There
> are two different ways we should use the FDL - one for stand-alone
> documents and one for documents which are shipped as part of GNOME.  
> 
> We discussed using the FDL in documents which are shipped as part of GNOME
> previously on this list, although we did not quite finish that discussion
> or update the templates.  I believe the remaining questions are "where do
> we put the fdl.sgml file so other documents can link to it?" and "what is
> the URL we should use in our link?".  I believe the suggested answers were
> "gnome-libs, which installs it in $PREFIX/gnome/help/fdl" and
> "gnome-help:fdl". Does this sound good to everybody?  If so, we can update
> the templates and ask John Fleck to write up a summary of what needs to be
> changed.  If not, let's resolve this soon.
> 
> For stand-alone documents, such as documents which are put onto web pages
> (eg. the developer docs on d.g.o., the FAQ's, etc.), we should include a
> copy of the FDL as an appendix.  This is done easily using entities.  We
> also have to update the legalnotice to direct the reader to the appendix
> instead of the FSF web page and mailing address as we did in the past.
> 
> For an example, see gnome-docu/tutorials/joining-gnome/.
> 
> I just noticed that the FSF has a copy of the FDL in DocBook format
> intended to be used as an entity at http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/fdl.html.  
> Does anybody have a preference as to whether we use the FSF's copy or the
> copy Eric made for us?
> 
> Everybody who is the author of a stand-alone document, especially if it is
> on www.gnome.org or developer.gnome.org should update their document to
> correctly use the FDL and then have the web pages updated to reflect the
> changes.
> 
> (Telsa: The FAQ's should automagically update the web page upon cvs
> commit.)
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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