Re: LYNX-DEV another oversight in SIMPLEDIR

[Klaus Weide]

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Nelson Henry Eric wrote:

> > Why not to copy those files before, within distribution package,
> > and remove a few lines from INSTALLATION and README ?
> 
> Granted they are relatively small files, but never-the-less I hope
> to stop the practice of having duplicate files and/or redundancies
> in the distribution package.  If it were my choice to make, I'd do
> away all together with the hypertextual references to these documents
> from the help files, by incorporating the content of "COPYHEADER" right
> into "about_lynx.html" and referencing to the GPL, not with "COPYING",
> but with an off-site http URL.  

There comes a point were you'd have to talk to the major copyright
holder, I think...

> I still believe it is much easier to copy these two files into the
> help tree, than to copy the whole about_lynx directory in parallel
> with the help tree.  

There is no about_lynx any more in the latest snapshots, did you not
notice?  Mybe you din't completely refresh your directory tree?

> I believe encouraging local installation of the
> help tree by giving complete instructions on how to do it is important.

Agreed.

  Klaus

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