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Article #721Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works
From: Paul Placeway
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 20:57
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 20:57
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Perhaps I wasn't entirly clear. Oz said this quite well, but I'll try to clearify my opinion a bit more: If a piece of information was used either in the implimentation of a program, or the documentation of that program, then said piece of information should be given due credit, regardless of it's availiablity status. Since the GAWK Manual is the primary documention on the GAWK program, that is where I would expect to see the credit placed. Perhaps the credit should be split into two sections (one for the program, one for the documentation) or perhaps not. So, if _The_AWK_Programming_Language_ was used in the *implimentation* of the GAWK Program, then it should show up in the bibliography of the GAWK Manual. Perhaps this whole mess could be solved by having two seperate bib sections: one for GNU and otherwise free information, the other for Non-free information (books, journals, etc.). Then both the information trail and the status of each part would be clear. -- Paul Placeway <pplaceway@bbn.com>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!mephisto!bbn.com From: pplaceway@bbn.com (Paul Placeway) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works Message-ID: <58000@bbn.BBN.COM> Date: 5 Jul 90 20:57:47 GMT References: <9886@odin.corp.sgi.com> Sender: news@bbn.com Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Lines: 23