Re: GFDL and man pages
* Brian T. Sniffen [Tue, 15 Jul 2003 at 08:34 -0400] # H. Include an unaltered copy of this License. That looks pretty clear to me. It would be clear, if this were the GNU Free Manpage License. The FSF makes a claim I know I've heard here before: that there is no one-to-one mapping from files to works. They'd presumably consider all the manpages in the csound package to be a single work, and have each refer to a central gfdl(8) page. Indeed, the manpages for gcc and friends seem to do just this. (see gcc(1), cpp(1), gfdl(7gcc), etc.) -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach - GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 pgpliE7Xqb13O.pgp Description: PGP signature
GFDL and man pages
I am working on a package (csound) that has no manpages or documentation of any sort (include --help) in the source archive. There is, however, a detailed reference manual[1] with the GFDL license that includes command-line program documentation[2,3]. There are no invariant or cover sections, but there is an Acknowledgements section. Am I safe to make manpages from this reference manual? Would that be a derivative work? What attribution do I need to include and where (in the manpages themselves, or in the copyright file, etc.)? Thanks, Hans 1. http://kevindumpscore.com/docs/csound-manual/ 2. http://kevindumpscore.com/docs/csound-manual/commandtop.html 3. http://kevindumpscore.com/docs/csound-manual/utilitytop.html -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach - GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 pgpqm873yeP9U.pgp Description: PGP signature
