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Update to GFDL 1.3.


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Update to GFDL 1.3.
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:42:13 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

I've updated the manual to use version 1.3 of the FDL,
as recommended by the FSF.

Cheers,
Ralf

        Update to GFDL 1.3.
        * doc/fdl.texi: Update to GFDL 1.3.
        * doc/libtool.texi: Adjust.
        * NEWS: Update.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 33ee277..4945c51 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ New in 2.2.8 2008-??-??: git version 2.2.7a, Libtool team:
   - Fix 2.2.6 regression that prevented using the libltdl macros together
     with Autoconf 2.59 (`possibly undefined macro: LT_LIBEXT').
 
+* Miscellaneous changes:
+
+  - The manual is distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL 1.3 now.
+
 New in 2.2.6 2008-09-05: git version 2.2.5a, Libtool team:
 
 * New features:
diff --git a/doc/fdl.texi b/doc/fdl.texi
index 7b93651..8805f1a 100644
--- a/doc/fdl.texi
+++ b/doc/fdl.texi
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 @c The GNU Free Documentation License.
address@hidden Version 1.2, November 2002
address@hidden Version 1.3, 3 November 2008
 
 @c This file is intended to be included within another document,
address@hidden hence no sectioning command or @node.  
address@hidden hence no sectioning command or @node.
 
 @display
-Copyright @copyright{} 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA
+Copyright @copyright{} 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, 
Inc.
address@hidden://fsf.org/}
 
 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ formats which do not have any title page as such, ``Title 
Page'' means
 the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
 preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
 
+The ``publisher'' means any person or entity that distributes copies
+of the Document to the public.
+
 A section ``Entitled XYZ'' means a named subunit of the Document whose
 title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following
 text that translates XYZ in another language.  (Here XYZ stands for a
@@ -379,13 +382,30 @@ title.
 @item
 TERMINATION
 
-You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
-as expressly provided for under this License.  Any other attempt to
-copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Document is void, and will
-automatically terminate your rights under this License.  However,
-parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this
-License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
-parties remain in full compliance.
+You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document
+except as expressly provided under this License.  Any attempt
+otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute it is void, and
+will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
+
+However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license
+from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally,
+unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally
+terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder
+fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to
+60 days after the cessation.
+
+Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is
+reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the
+violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have
+received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that
+copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after
+your receipt of the notice.
+
+Termination of your rights under this section does not terminate the
+licenses of parties who have received copies or rights from you under
+this License.  If your rights have been terminated and not permanently
+reinstated, receipt of a copy of some or all of the same material does
+not give you any rights to use it.
 
 @item
 FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
@@ -403,7 +423,42 @@ following the terms and conditions either of that 
specified version or
 of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
 Free Software Foundation.  If the Document does not specify a version
 number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
-as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.
+as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.  If the Document
+specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions of this
+License can be used, that proxy's public statement of acceptance of a
+version permanently authorizes you to choose that version for the
+Document.
+
address@hidden
+RELICENSING
+
+``Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site'' (or ``MMC Site'') means any
+World Wide Web server that publishes copyrightable works and also
+provides prominent facilities for anybody to edit those works.  A
+public wiki that anybody can edit is an example of such a server.  A
+``Massive Multiauthor Collaboration'' (or ``MMC'') contained in the
+site means any set of copyrightable works thus published on the MMC
+site.
+
+``CC-BY-SA'' means the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
+license published by Creative Commons Corporation, a not-for-profit
+corporation with a principal place of business in San Francisco,
+California, as well as future copyleft versions of that license
+published by that same organization.
+
+``Incorporate'' means to publish or republish a Document, in whole or
+in part, as part of another Document.
+
+An MMC is ``eligible for relicensing'' if it is licensed under this
+License, and if all works that were first published under this License
+somewhere other than this MMC, and subsequently incorporated in whole
+or in part into the MMC, (1) had no cover texts or invariant sections,
+and (2) were thus incorporated prior to November 1, 2008.
+
+The operator of an MMC Site may republish an MMC contained in the site
+under CC-BY-SA on the same site at any time before August 1, 2009,
+provided the MMC is eligible for relicensing.
+
 @end enumerate
 
 @page
@@ -417,7 +472,7 @@ license notices just after the title page:
 @group
   Copyright (C)  @var{year}  @var{your name}.
   Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-  under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
+  under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
   or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
   with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
   Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
diff --git a/doc/libtool.texi b/doc/libtool.texi
index 1ee12aa..f03adfb 100644
--- a/doc/libtool.texi
+++ b/doc/libtool.texi
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ This file documents GNU Libtool @value{VERSION}
 Copyright (C) 1996-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
 with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts,
 and with no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
 Copyright @copyright{} 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-under the terms of the @sc{gnu} Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
+under the terms of the @sc{gnu} Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
 with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts,
 and with no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in




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