Re: GNU M4 1.4.5 released

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Eric,

Eric Blake wrote:
> What are the invariant sections you are worried about?  I am
> personally agreeable to anything to allow debian to ship m4-1.4.5
> (or the soon forthcoming 1.4.6, since problems have been identified
> in 1.4.5); but it is also up to Gary.
> 
>> The previous license had this:
>>
>>> 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.
>> which was good enough for main. Is there any hope to see m4 manual
>> to be dual-licensed under both GNU FDL and the previous license?
>>
>> [ I assume the answer is "no", but I think it is better to be sure ].

Wasn't the 1.4.4 manual released under GFDL-1.1?  Did Debian
ship the 1.4.4 manual?

I'm sorry I didn't notice earlier;  I think the problem is this:

$ diff -u -D '1 week ago' doc/m4.texinfo
[[snip]]
-or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
-with the no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts,
-and with no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in
[[snip]]
+Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts
+being ``A @acronym{GNU} Manual,'' and with the Back-Cover Texts as in
+(a) below.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
address@hidden Free Documentation License.''

If Santiago agrees with me, I think we should undo that part of
the change, and release 1.4.6 relatively soon.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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