[Richard Stallman <address@hidden>] Re: GFDL question

[Dave Love]

I guess this is of general interest.

rms says all the manuals should be put under the GFDL, following
emacs.texi.  Could people maintaining packages that have separate
manuals modify them accordingly?  I'll fix up the Gnus ones.

[Thanks to Stefan for spotting the reference issue.]

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>     I was copying the GFDL boilerplate from the Emacs manual to those for
>     Gnus etc., and realize that it refers to the section containing the
>     GFDL text.  I suspect that's not appropriate for all the subsidiary
>     manuals.  Is it OK to refer to that section "in the Emacs manual"?
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> Yes.  But the license notice should say,
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> This document is part of a collection distributed under the GNU Free
> Documentation License.  If you want to distribute this document
> separately from the collection, you can do so by adding a copy of the
> license to the document, as described in section 6 of the license.
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