Raul Miller wrote: >> > [A] These would have to be factual inaccuracies in a secondary section >> > (which rather limits the scope of any such inaccuracy). > > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:13:05AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: >> It could also be Cover Texts. The documentation currently distributed >> by the FSF require the cover text "a GNU manual" and a notice that >> implies that the FSF sells copies of the text. Both of these turn into >> factual inaccuracies if I modify the manual to become documentation of >> the BSD implementation of the tool in question. > > I agree that this is bulky and akward. > > I don't agree that this requires any factual inaccuracy. You can create > a derived copy of the work which eliminates the content you don't want, > and wrap the remainder in the required cover and include that as a > chapter or appendix in some other manual.
Huh? I don't follow this paragraph at *all*. > > Note that content under a "patches only" license will give you much > worse problems when incorporating it (perhaps as examples, or perhaps > pulling documentation from a help menu item) into other documentation. > -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
