GNU bug report logs - #1988
Making the license statement visible in the Emacs Manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jesse W <jessw <at> netwood.net>

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:25:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Jesse W <jessw <at> netwood.net>
Cc: 1988 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1988: Making the license statement visible in the Emacs Manual
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:38:08 -0500

Jesse W wrote:

> Currently, in the displayed HTML of the Emacs Manual, there is nothing 
> the specifically says it is released under the GFDL (GNU Free 
> Documentation License), and what the Invariant Sections and Cover-Texts 
> are.  It's in an HTML comment, but there isn't even a note in the 
> rendered text to tell you to look there. 

The Emacs manual uses the standard texinfo @copying command to specify
this information; so I'd say that this was a texinfo issue rather than
an Emacs issue. Perhaps you can check on the texinfo list (?) if this
has been discussed?
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