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Re: GFDL/GPL issues
- From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- Cc: Paul Koning <paul_koning at Dell dot com>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, "dnovillo at google dot com" <dnovillo at google dot com>, "ams at gnu dot org" <ams at gnu dot org>, "bkoz at redhat dot com" <bkoz at redhat dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "iant at google dot com" <iant at google dot com>, "mark at codesourcery dot com" <mark at codesourcery dot com>, "richard dot guenther at gmail dot com" <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, "stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com" <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:48:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues
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Joe Buck wrote:
So one way to move forward is to effectively have two manuals, one
containing traditional user-written text (GFDL), the other containing
generated text (GPL). If you print it out as a book, the generated
part would just appear as an appendix to the manual, it's "mere
aggregation".
Does *anyone* print documentation "out as a book", this seems to me
to be a completely obsolete concept. We used to print GNAT manuals
for our customers, and ship them out in fancy boxes, and they looked
nice, but were in reality useless, since they got so quickly outdated.
We still format everything so that it can be printed out as books, but
I doubt anyone does it, we certainly don't.