Re: FSF Document Licence (was Re: Contributing to the Debian Users' Manual)
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
>
> I just want to know what is this document licence. I can't find it anywhere
> on the FSF site or in their docs [or may be I'm too lazy to check all their
> GNU code... ]. Can you give me a pointer. Documentation is one of the
> major flaw I of the GPL, IMHO.
>
You can find it in the copyright file (/usr/doc/*/copyright) for
shellutils and fileutils for example. It's short so I'll just paste it:
Manual (sh-utils.info) Copyright (C) 1994, 95, 96 Free Software
Foundation,
Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to process this file through TeX and print the
results, provided the printed document carries copying permission
notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
(this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual).
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire
resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission
notice identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions,
except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved
by the Foundation.
> Thanks and good luck with this project.
>
Thanks!
Havoc Pennington ==== http://pobox.com/~hp
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