From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8756 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2005 03:52:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 8742 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Dec 2005 03:52:21 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 03:52:19 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1ElIG1-00047T-9E for gdb@sourceware.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:52:17 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 03:52:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Where in the (info) manual is the license statement supposed to go? Message-ID: <20051211035217.GA15798@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sourceware.org References: <20051210014001.GA28253@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-12/txt/msg00124.txt.bz2 On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 12:16:09AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Are these supposed to show up in the Info document? > > Not in the parts that the Info reader displays. OK. I do find that a bit strange, though. It's the license of the document; we include the full text of the FDL as an appendix, but not the details of how it applies to the manual you're reading. If I wanted the licensing terms for an Info manual, Info's where I'd expect to find them. I'm fine with my expectations being wrong. > Why are you asking this? Is there any specific problem with how > things are currently? This is how every GNU manual handles the GFDL > mandatory blurbs. Another Debian developer expressed some confusion over the current situation, in a bug report. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC