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Re: GFDL/GPL issues
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: dewar at adacore dot com
- Cc: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, ams at gnu dot org, bkoz at redhat dot com, dnovillo at google dot com, fw at deneb dot enyo dot de, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, iant at google dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, paul_koning at dell dot com, richard dot guenther at gmail dot com, stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:17:20 EDT
- Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues
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> I think there is a difference between a novel you can hold and
> read, and computer documentation. My question was not whether
> anyone reads books any more, it was whether people read computer
> manuals in this form any more.
To me, it depends on the type of manual and whether it's for something
new or something I've used already. For things that I've been using for
a while, I much prefer an on-line manual since it's easily searchable.
But if I have a new piece of software (or hardware) I often print out
the manual to more easily read it (e.g., on the train).
I think the sort of stuff that's under the GFDL is much more likely to be
printed than things (like API documentation) that are automatically generated
and hence GPL'ed.