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Re: FDLed manuals

From: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
Cc: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:33:03 -0800
Subject: Re: FDLed manuals
References: <20030124011352.GA30761@doctormoo> <3E309989.8010600@apple.com> <20030123175247.C16088@synopsys.com>

Joe Buck wrote:


On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:40:25PM -0800, Stan Shebs wrote:

I don't know if it's a "major" problem, but tech writers at GNU-using
corporations (and I'm not going to name any names :-) ) are frequently
under pressure to edit the manuals in various ways, and removing
undesired sections is one way to "simplify" the manuals or to reduce
the page count for printing.

They may well have violated the license, in that case.

Quite possibly.

Stan

References:
- Re: FDLed manuals
  - From: Nathanael Nerode
- Re: FDLed manuals
  - From: Stan Shebs
- Re: FDLed manuals
  - From: Joe Buck

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