Re: proposal for fdl module

[Eric Blake]

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According to Simon Josefsson on 7/11/2006 2:49 AM:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> In the m4 project, I wanted to update the documentation to include
>> the FDL in an appendix.  gnulib contains doc/fdl.texi, but did not
>> have any easy way to import it over to m4.  Would this patch be
>> acceptable to allow documentation to be pulled in as separate
>> modules?
> 
> I tried to apply the patch, but it seems it was line-wrapped.  Could
> you send it again?  I think we should install it, I use fdl in most of
> my packages, and synching it from gnulib seems like a good thing.

I went ahead and applied it, instead.  Besides, Gary Vaughan submitted a
patch to m4 that wants doc/regexprops-generic.texi available as well as
fdl.texi, so it looks like documentation modules will be useful.

My only question is what license should I mark the fdl module as?  For
now, I went with public domain - fdl.texi contains a disclaimer that it
can only be used without modification, but the text of the license is
certainly not GPL'd, and you can use the FDL on public domain projects.
Or maybe it is time to add another license category for documentation?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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