OK, Gene. I'll undertake an html edition of your HOWTO. I'll send it to you first when I've finished. I agree about the value of keeping both a plain text and html edition. I think the main diff between GPL and GFDL is the language involved. After all, documentation is not code. So, the GPL's authorization to copy and improve code is meaningless with documentation. The GFDL specifies about the freedom to distribute, modify, etc., and under what conditions--in other words keeping the same principles in play, but for the text, not for the code that isn't present anyway. Thus, copyright being a legal thing, it has some legal teeth, where GPL probably doesn't. But, I am no lawyer as you well know. Gene Collins writes: > Hi Janina. The version number is a good idea. > > If you'd like to make an html file, I'd apreciate that. The Table of > Contents is a good idea, as well as links to the urls mentioned in the > document. > > When you have the html file ready, let me know. I think we'll keep both > the html version and the plain text version on the site. > > I haven't checked out the documentation license yet. Can you brieffly > summarize the differences from the GPL? Thanks.
