Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Alexandre Duret-Lutz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> Eric: >> | Is there any way you might consider dropping the >> | Front and Back Cover Texts requirements from the manual? >> >> Sorry, this is the FSF policy. Not my call. > > Could you please point out where the FSF have made this policy?
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#License-Notices Documentation files should have license notices also. Manuals should use the GNU Free Documentation License. Here is an example of the license notice to use after the copyright notice. Please adjust the list of invariant sections as appropriate for your manual. (If there are none, then say with no invariant sections.) See GNU Sample Texts, for a full example in a Texinfo manual. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being "GNU General Public License", with the Front-Cover Texts being ``A GNU Manual,'' and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You are free to copy and modify this GNU Manual. Buying copies from GNU Press supports the FSF in developing GNU and promoting software freedom.'' If the FSF does not publish this manual on paper, then omit the last sentence in (a) that talks about copies from GNU Press. If the FSF is not the copyright holder, then replace FSF with the appropriate name. -- On Perl: "It's as if H.P. Lovecraft, returned from the dead and speaking by seance to Larry Wall, designed a language both elegant and terrifying for his Elder Things to write programs in, and forgot that the Shoggoths didn't turn out quite so well in the long run." --Matt Olson
