🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9110140226.AA29242@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, tower@gnu.ai.mit.edu writes:
>    Date: 5 Aug 91 12:43:53 GMT
>    Organization: Institutt for Humanistisk Informatikk, Blindern, Oslo, Norway
>    From: rolfl@hedda.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
>    Sender: gnu-misc-discuss-request@cis.ohio-state.edu
> 
>       In article <20650@alice.att.com>, howard@alice.att.com (Howard Trickey) writes:
> 
>       > I had the pleasure of being at Stanford with Don Knuth during
>       > much of TeX's gestation period.  I cannot let stand the
>       > implication of this last statement, that perhaps Knuth had
>       > planned all along to make buckets of money from TeXbook sales,
>       > and that's why he gave TeX and Metafont awa
> 
>    I should guess that GNU would approve of this policy.  
> 
> Just for the record (and a few months late), the GNU Project does NOT
> approve of this policy.  The source code of manuals should be
> copylefted, jsut as the source code of programs.
> 
> thanx -len

I cannot resist to add my $0.02:

It would be nice if the FSF would follow DEKs approach of selling the
book and **paying** for each and every error (i.e., spelling errors,
ommissions of important material, missing [sic!] or wrong index entries,
etc.) It would improve the quality of the manuals by magnitudes...

--
Joachim
Darmstadt, Germany
<schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>