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Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check |
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Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:05:33 -0700 |
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On 08/04/11 07:20, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I'm not sure if we talked about this before, but a manual which would
>> > be dual licensed GPL + (GFDL with front-cover and back-cover) would
>> > solve the issue completely for us. If this is still possible, that
>> > would be great.
> I don't know the status/details of this.
> Paul, have you looked at it?
The GNU coding standards encourage the use of the GFDL
for nontrivial manuals such as the diff manual
<http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Documentation.html>.
I don't know about any GNU policy for dual-licensing.
Unless there's good precedent for that, I'd be inclined
to stick with the GFDL.
The GNU Press used to print a diff manual,
but it currently does not seem to do that
<http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/gnu-press/books/manuals>,
which means that we should make this change:
--- a/doc/diffutils.texi
+++ b/doc/diffutils.texi
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free
Documentation
License.''
(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have the freedom to
-copy and modify this GNU manual. Buying copies from the FSF
-supports it in developing GNU and promoting software freedom.''
+copy and modify this GNU manual.''
@end quotation
@end copying
Would this be enough to address the Debian project's concerns?
(Sorry, I don't know what they are.)
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check, Santiago Vila, 2011/08/03
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check, Jim Meyering, 2011/08/03
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check, Jim Meyering, 2011/08/03
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check, Santiago Vila, 2011/08/04
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check, Jim Meyering, 2011/08/04
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check, Santiago Vila, 2011/08/04
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check, Paul Eggert, 2011/08/04
- [bug-diffutils] GFDL and invariants [was: bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check], Eric Blake, 2011/08/04
- Re: [bug-diffutils] GFDL and invariants [was: bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check], Jim Meyering, 2011/08/04
- Re: [bug-diffutils] GFDL and invariants [was: bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check], Santiago Vila, 2011/08/05
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check, Paul Eggert, 2011/08/04
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check, Eric Blake, 2011/08/08
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check, Eric Blake, 2011/08/08
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check, Paul Eggert, 2011/08/08
- Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check, Eric Blake, 2011/08/08