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posted by rr Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 19.12.2020, 15:12

> > 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.
I don't understand, sorry. What do you mean by "it sometimes get published"?

To clarify: I was talking about software manuals (incl. online help) in general, not about Free Pascal in special.

> 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 back into the public docs, but not be published elsewhere for a limited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).
What would be the reason for such a practice? Specifically the "not be published elsewhere" part.

> 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
Yes.

> a linking license is supposed to mean for documentation)
Books can be found in libraries. Just kidding. :-D

GNU FDL or one of the CCx licenses would probably be a better choice.

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