Where in the (info) manual is the license statement supposed to go?

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Sun Dec 11 17:09:00 GMT 2005


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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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