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Re: Where in the (info) manual is the license statement supposed to go?
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:16:09 +0200
- Subject: Re: Where in the (info) manual is the license statement supposed to go?
- References: <20051210014001.GA28253@nevyn.them.org>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 20:40:01 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> There are two stanzas in gdb.texinfo talking about the GNU FDL as it
> applies to this document (e.g. what the Front-Cover Texts are). One's
> inside @ifinfo at the very beginning and the other's inside @titlepage.
That's correct.
> Are these supposed to show up in the Info document?
Not in the parts that the Info reader displays.
> The @ifinfo one is included in gdb.info, but in such a way that the
> info browser never displays it - it's not in a node.
Right, that's how it's supposed to be.
> The @titlepage one is presumably intended for other forms of manual.
Yes, primarily for the printed version.
Why are you asking this? Is there any specific problem with how
things are currently? This is how every GNU manual handles the GFDL
mandatory blurbs.