Documenting Gnome apps with the GPL

[Adrian Custer <acuster nature berkeley edu>]

Hey everyone,

sorry for the cross-posting, not sure where this issue belongs. I have
three questions:

I.
The GNOME project could use a standard location where copyright notices
and the license are supposed to appear. Copyright notices are in lots of
places but the GPL tends to be buried. This is where I found it.

Galeon: bottom of the second page of manual
XChat: online?
Evolution: middle of the fifth page of manual
Abiword: about box
gftp: a tab in the about box
gnumeric: the docs seem to license themselves under the GPL

Places it could be.

1) the bottom of the manual page.
many apps are skipping this document nowadays.

2) a command-line argument.
I have a really vague memory that this used to be a requirement of all
GNU project software but I can't find a reference. Also there was a
distinction between command-line programs and gui programs and how they
were supposed to do things.

3) in the help menu:
either as part of the About... dialog or in a separate entry.

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II.
Can we start assigning copyright to the foundation? 

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III.
Are all our docs to be licensed under the GNU free documentation
license?

cheers,
adrian


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