Justin Pence <jlpence@xxxxxxx> writes:
> We've recently gotten a few emails about the fact that you guys no
> longer have the autoconf manual online in HTML form. Is there a reason
> for this? If not, can you please get it back online?
Thanks for mentioning this. It is a copyright-notice problem, and is
intended to be fixed in the next release. I installed the following
patch to the web site to attempt to help explain the situation.
Index: index.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/autoconf/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.59/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -p -u -r1.1 -r1.2
--- index.html 8 Dec 2004 23:50:48 -0000 1.1
+++ index.html 23 Feb 2005 19:45:06 -0000 1.2
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#1F00FF" ALINK="#FF0000" VLINK="#9900DD">
<H1>Autoconf: Table of Contents</H1>
<ADDRESS>Free Software Foundation</ADDRESS>
-<ADDRESS>last updated December 24, 2002</ADDRESS>
<P>
<A HREF="/graphics/gnu-head-sm.jpg"><IMG SRC="/graphics/gnu-head-sm.jpg"
ALT=" [image of the Head of a GNU] "
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@
<P>
<P><HR><P>
<P>
-This manual is available in the following formats:
+This manual is available in the following formats.
<P>
<UL>
<LI>formatted as a
@@ -33,6 +32,9 @@ This manual is available in the followin
<A HREF="autoconf.dvi.gz">gzipped TeX dvi file (261,775 bytes)</A>.
</UL>
<P>
+Unfortunately the HTML format is not available for Autoconf 2.59,
+since the software used to generate the HTML format improperly omitted
+the copyright notices. This should be fixed in the next release.
<HR>
@@ -47,10 +49,14 @@ Comments on these web pages to
send other questions to
<A HREF="mailto:gnu@xxxxxxx";><EM>gnu@xxxxxxx</EM></A>.
<P>
-Copyright © 1997, 1998, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+Copyright © 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA
<P>
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
-permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.<HR>
+permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.
+<P>
+Updated:
+$Id: index.html,v 1.2 2005/02/23 19:45:06 eggert Exp $
+<HR>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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