Re: Some thoughts about documentation

[Marius Vollmer]

Ariel Rios <address@hidden> writes:

> El 18 Apr 2001 18:24:08 +0200, Marius Vollmer escribió:
> > Alex Shinn <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > I think the examples would be simple enough we can expect people to
> > > give copyright to GNU.
> > 
> > Well, assigning copyright to the FSF is always some administrative
> > overhead, including sending snail-mail.  So even if they agree to sign
> > over the copyrights to the FSF, it might just be too much hassle for a
> > smallish piece of code.
> So it seems that the number of writers of this Cookbook should be a
> small one, three or four, right? 

Err, no, we should try not to require contributors to assign the
copyright to the FSF.  It should not be really necessary for examples
in a book, as long as people know the terms that they can use the
examples under.

I haven't yet studied the official FSF position yet, tho.