GNU FDL makes "difference files" useless

2003-08-29 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Scott James Remnant wrote: >GNU CVS repository, emacs/man/emacs.texi, revision 1.64 >The following two changes are made in this revision: >-to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c' >+to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c' >and >-(which

Re: GNU FDL makes 'difference files' useless

2003-08-28 Thread Joe Moore
David B Harris said: > On 28 Aug 2003 03:22:47 +0100 > Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -(which makes passes at compilers) written >> +(which makes passes at compilers) written > > I agree that this is an ambiguous case; one side would want to convince > the judge that the user was

Re: GNU FDL makes "difference files" useless

2003-08-28 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:25, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:22:47AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > the difference is in the trailing whitespace, but that's irrelevant. > > No, it's relevant. In the section you quote: > > >L. Preserve all the Invariant S

Re: GNU FDL makes "difference files" useless

2003-08-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:25:45PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:22:47AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > the difference is in the trailing whitespace, but that's irrelevant. > > No, it's relevant. In the section you quote: > > >L. Preserve all th

Re: GNU FDL makes 'difference files' useless

2003-08-28 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:38:08 -0400 (EDT) "Joe Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David B Harris said: > > Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -(which makes passes at compilers) written > >> +(which makes passes at compilers) written > > > > I agree that this is an ambiguous case; o

Re: GNU FDL makes "difference files" useless

2003-08-28 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:22:47AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > the difference is in the trailing whitespace, but that's irrelevant. No, it's relevant. In the section you quote: >L. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document, unaltered > in their text

GNU FDL makes "difference files" useless

2003-08-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
GNU CVS repository, emacs/man/emacs.texi, revision 1.64 The following two changes are made in this revision: -to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c' +to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c' and -(which makes passes at compilers) written +(which makes pas

Re: GNU FDL makes "difference files" useless

2003-08-27 Thread David B Harris
On 28 Aug 2003 03:22:47 +0100 Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -(which makes passes at compilers) written > +(which makes passes at compilers) written > > the difference is in the trailing whitespace, but that's irrelevant. > > These changes were made to part of an Invariant sect