Re: [libstdc++ 2/3] Explain licensing of library code and docs

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:57:18PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Phil Edwards wrote:
> > Index: docs/html/configopts.html
> > ===================================================================
> >  <P CLASS="fineprint"><em>
> 
> Just a note, we should use lower-case here, that is, <p class="...">

Yes.  All of those occurrences were from the early mass-generated days
of libstdc++ documentation.  Many of the tags got skipped when I did the
mechanical change to lowercase/xhtml.  I've been fixing the leftovers as
I find them.


> >  Comments and suggestions are welcome, and may be sent to
> >  <a href="mailto:libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org";>the mailing list</a>.
>                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ...>the libstdc++ mailing list</a>

Same here.


> > Index: docs/html/documentation.html
> > ===================================================================
> > +<p>Return <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/";>to the homepage</a>.</p>
> 
> This shouldn't be an absolute link, because of our mirrors.

Also here.  (We didn't use to have any mirrors.  :-)


> > +<p>There are two licenses affecting GNU libstdc++-v3:  one for the code, and
> > +   one for the documentation.  Here we will describe both of them, and try
> > +   to answer some of the common questions.
> 
> "common" here is a bit ambivalent (to me, as a non-native speaker at
> least). "common" in the sense of "wide-spread, often" or as in "common
> to both of them"?

"wide-spread" is the sense I wanted.  Good catch; I'll fix this at the
same time.


> > +   If you have more questions, ask the
> > +   FSF or the gcc-help mailing list; the person writing this page is a
> > +   programmer, not a lawyer.
> 
> Probably we should direct folks to the gcc@gcc.gnu.org list for intricate
> licensing questions?

Oh.  I had gotten the impression we were trying to keep the licensing
questions /off/ of the main gcc list.  Sure, I can change this.


> (Keep in mind that this will appear on
> www.gnu.org as well!)

Oh crumbs.  I'd forgotten that.


> Instead of this markup, we could use definition lists:

Yeah, I tried that as my first attempt, and my browsers rendered it horribly.
Are there extra tags I can use in definition lists?


Thanks very much for taking the time to look at this.

Phil

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