From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13315 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2005 17:09:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 13308 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Dec 2005 17:09:05 -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 17:09:03 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1ElUh2-0006CN-Oh for gdb@sourceware.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:09:00 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:09:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Where in the (info) manual is the license statement supposed to go? Message-ID: <20051211170859.GA23733@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sourceware.org References: <20051210014001.GA28253@nevyn.them.org> <20051211035217.GA15798@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/msg00132.txt.bz2 On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 06:32:41AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > IANAL, but to me, the fact that we have the terms in the file is > enough. They are not part of the manual itself. In a sense, this is > analogous to an executable program: you only see the terms if you > invoke it with a special command-line option. Or "show copying", in the case of GDB - I thought this was mandated by the GNU standards (maintain.texi) for interactive programs, but I can't find it now, so it's likely I was imaging it. > That said, if you think this is strange, please write to RMS about it. I may do that. Thanks. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC