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Need help with help content. (Developers)

posted by marcov, 16.12.2020, 23:27

> > > 1. Convert and adopt (to TP) FreePascal help for a few units (System
> and
> > > may be Dos, Crt) - question: is it allowed by license?
> >
> > I don't know for sure about the permission (it is a special case because
> > manuals have been published as book in the past), but I think it will be
> > ok.
>
> I tend to disagree on this. Books, that includes software manuals, are
> copyrighted works. You need a permission from the autor(s) to reproduce
> these.
I think you misunderstand. It is more like it is basically copyrighted but free documentation, but it sometimes get published. The publisher only owns the edits, and might even pay the documenter to do/help with it.

Usually there is some kind of gentleman's agreement that the edits can flow back into the public docs, but not be published elsewhere for a limited time (few years).

Doc sources contain copyrights like

% Copyright (C) 1997, by Michael Van Canneyt
%
% The FPC documentation is free text; you can redistribute it and/or
% modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
% published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
% License, or (at your option) any later version.
%

which IMHO demonstrates that it is meant to be free (though god knows what a linking license is supposed to mean for documentation)

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