Hello, I would like to use the gendocs.sh script to generate documentation for my package.¹ However, since my package is not part of the GNU project, there are naturally some changes I would like to make to the gendocs template (specifically, gendocs_template_min). Here are the specific changes I would like to make:
--- gendocs_template_min.gnulib +++ gendocs_template_min @@ -4,23 +4,20 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en"> <head> -<title>%%TITLE%% - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> +<title>%%TITLE%% - Documentation</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content='text/html; charset=utf-8' /> -<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/gnu.css" /> +<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../mu.css" /> </head> <body> <h3>%%TITLE%%</h3> -<address>Free Software Foundation</address> +<address> + Asher Gordon + <a href="mailto:asd...@posteo.net"><asd...@posteo.net></a> +</address> <address>last updated %%DATE%%</address> -<p> -<a href="/graphics/gnu-head.jpg"> - <img src="/graphics/gnu-head-sm.jpg" - alt=" [image of the head of a GNU] " width="129" height="122"/> -</a> -</p> <hr /> <p>This manual (%%PACKAGE%%) is available in the following formats:</p> @@ -73,21 +70,12 @@ <div id="footer" class="copyright"> -<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to -<a href="mailto:g...@gnu.org"><g...@gnu.org></a>. -There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> -the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent -to <a href="mailto:%%EMAIL%%"><%%EMAIL%%></a>.</p> -</div> - <p>Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p> -<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" --> - </div> </body> </html>
(maintain) Invoking gendocs.sh says: "(Feel free to modify the generic template for your own purposes.)" However, gendocs_template_min is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. To quote the license text:
The above rights include the right to make such modifications as are
technically necessary to exercise the rights in other media and
formats, but otherwise *you have no rights to make Derivative
Works*.
(Emphasis added.) So this seems to be a contradiction.
Also, I understand the FSF would want to license works which convey
their opinions under the CC BY-ND 3.0 US or similar licenses, but
gendocs_template_min is certainly not such a work, and using such a
license seems to me to be a mistake.
These issues also apply to gendocs_template, since that is under the
same license.
Since this is a licensing issue, I've CC'd licens...@fsf.org since they
might have people who understand this stuff better.
Thanks,
Asher
Footnotes:
¹ https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/libmu
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