On Thursday 31 January 2008 13:50, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:28:50PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > Anyway, the best way of using texinfo is to start from examples. In our > > case, you can copy the manual from GRUB Legacy, and tweak it. FYI, Emacs > > supports texinfo very well. > > If the manual from GRUB Legacy (or a derived version under the same > license) is in GFDL with invariant sections or front/back cover texts, I > won't be able to add this in the Debian package. > > Is there a way we can get around this? GFDL is fine as far as Debian is > concerned, only invariant sections and front/back cover texts are a > problem.
The GRUB manual is licensed under the traditional "as-is" term. It was only because GFDL hadn't been born yet when I wrote the manual, and I stopped working on GRUB Legacy when the FSF urged me to change the license. As the manual is not so long, and the FSF hasn't published a paper version, we can omit Invariant Sections. However, we must change the license to GFDL in GRUB 2, anyway. You can see more info here: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Documentation.html If the FSF wants to print it out, I will not hesitate to add Invariant Sections. Actually, there was a chance that a printed version would be published, but it was not done, because I pointed out that it had some incomplete chapters, so not tolerable for the payment, and I didn't make effort on finishing them. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
