Re: Proper use of FDL

[Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu>]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Eric Baudais wrote:

[SNIP]

> > 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?
> 
> I have looked over the DocBook version on www.fsf.org and don't like some 
> things.
> 
> 1) They don't use character entities.  The copyright symbol is (C) instead 
>    of using © which gives a much nicer symbol.
> 
> 2) They use a blockquote at the beginning for metadata which should all go 
>    into the <docinfo> tag.
> 
> 3) There are *no* internal links.
> 
> 4) The use "s instead of the <quote> tag.
> 
> I believe that the FSF's markup of the FDL is the minimal amount of markup 
> that you can use and still call the markup DocBook.  I also do not think 
> that using our own markup of the FDL is going against the license because 
> the license is copied verbatim.
> 
> I would like to see that we use the markup of the FDL already in CVS at
> gnome-docu/gdp.

Sounds good to me.  I was rather surprised at how little markup they did
too.  Let's use your copy at gnome-docu/gdp/fdl.sgml.

Dan