docs: relax documentation license by dropping cover text

See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-diffutils/2011-08/msg00022.html
for precedence in diffutils.  The autoconf manual, as of this commit,
was still barely below 400 pages.

* doc/autoconf.texi (copying): Drop front- and back-cover texts.
* NEWS: Document this.
Reported by Brian Gough.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b780d30f793c48e817349d92ff1b766d4a202f99..be019f527f9031ef264f4dd917e7a172bcba9b01 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2011-09-26  Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>
+
+       docs: relax documentation license by dropping cover text
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (copying): Drop front- and back-cover texts.
+       * NEWS: Document this.
+       Reported by Brian Gough.
+
 2011-09-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
        docs: signal-related bugs and incompatibilities for the shells

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c44678d807ec3a5ff92065808ecca52a2678f141..858601a42138cf9eb27ff315b6369587920976be 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
 
+** The texinfo documentation no longer specifies "front-cover" or
+   "back-cover" texts, so that it may now be included in Debian's
+   "main" section.
+
 ** Support for the Go programming language has been added.  The new macro
    AC_LANG_GO sets variables GOC and GOFLAGS.
 

diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index db414cfc8f6b8c51cce736c62b15b35834233630..91bb50ac40e209ac59626195abf7d44bdc25bb4d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -209,15 +209,9 @@ Inc.
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 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 the Front-Cover texts
-being ``A GNU Manual,'' and with the Back-Cover Texts as in
-(a) below.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
-``GNU Free Documentation License.''
-
-(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have the freedom to copy and
-modify this GNU manual.  Buying copies from the FSF
-supports it in developing GNU and promoting software
-freedom.''
+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 Free Documentation License.''
 @end quotation
 @end copying