[W3-dev] Re: w3 manual does not permit modification?

[Ben Pfaff]

Is there any chance you could take the time to update the
license?  I would like to get it clarified so that it's certain
whether it can be included in Debian by Debian's rules.
Currently, it's only in Debian because no one had noticed the
lack of permission for modification earlier.

If you don't think it's possible for you to do so, or if you
don't have time, let me know and I'll ask address@hidden; presumably
someone there can help me out.

"William Perry" <address@hidden> writes:

> That was just boilerplate I copied from another texinfo manual at the
> time (1995?)
>
> I haven't had time to maintain emacs-w3 in years unfortunately - I'm
> not even sure I have the ssh key to get into savannah CVS any more.
>
> It was certainly not my intention to prevent modification - I always
> hated writing documentation the most and would have loved to have
> someone else do it.
>
> -bp
>
> On 3/26/06, Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The texinfo manual for w3 has the following license notice:
>>
>>     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 make and distribute verbatim copies 
>> address@hidden
>>     this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission 
>> address@hidden
>>     are preserved on all copies.
>>
>> This doesn't give any permission to modify the manual.  Is this
>> intentional?  Could you clarify the license?
>> --
>> Ben Pfaff
>> email: address@hidden
>> web: http://benpfaff.org
>>

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