Re: [help-texinfo] HTML output: license notices

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 01:38:33AM -0500, Ineiev wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 06:59:34PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > > Currently, Texinfo outputs copyright and license notices in HTML
> > > comments, like in [0]; is there an option to put it in a footer
> > > of the page visible for normal visitors, like in [1]?
> > > 
> > > [0] 
> > > https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Quotations-and-Examples.html
> > > [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/
> > 
> > Not that I know of.  The closest thing I could find was to use 
> > PRE_BODY_CLOSE, e.g.
> > 
> > texi2any --html file.texi -c PRE_BODY_CLOSE='<hr><div>Copyright 2019 
> > etc.</div>'
> 
> Would it make sense as a feature request? current GNU website guidelines
> say every page should have copyright and license notices, and I'm not
> sure if including them in comments is the optimal way; at least,
> the boilerplate makes them visible for the reader.

Normally there is @copying which is rendered in the document itself,
only once, but I believe it is enough in most cases.

> 
> [0] 
> https://www.gnu.org/server/standards/gnu-website-guidelines.html#CopyrightGuidelines