Re: old and new GNU documentation licenses, and the some of the manuals to which they apply
Peter S Galbraith schrieb/wrote:
> Claus Färber <claus@xn--frber-gra.muc.de> wrote:
>> It can be a seperate XML (or whatever) file that's only read by the
>> software.
> But that's not what he meant! Please don't change what he said to fit
> your view.
That's your interpretation of what he said. Please don't interpret what
he said to fit your view.
> That would be a major inconvenience to do in elisp instead of
> simply insert the text in the code.
Which is a bad programming practice as it makes translations harder.
Further, texts so smalled can hardly be based on full-text documentation
but have to be re-written anyway. They are probably trivial enough not
to be copyrightable anyway.
Claus
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