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bug #53783: Three man pages: The text "this .ig-section" no longer makes sense

Submitter:  Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Submitted:  Sat 28 Apr 2018 10:52:03 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  General Severity:  2 - Minor
Item Group:  Documentation Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gbranden
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  1.22.4
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Wed 15 Jun 2022 05:37:52 PM UTC, comment #2: 


commit b8500b708a0e64b3a8244c4ddce9ee43de12c290
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 5 07:49:14 2018 -0500

    Correct and parallelize usage of GNU FDL.

            * contrib/hdtbl/groff_hdtbl.7.man:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/appendices.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/color.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/cover.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/definitions.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/docelement.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/docprocessing.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/goodies.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/graphical.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/headfootpage.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/images.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/inlines.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/intro.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/letters.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/macrolist.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/rectoverso.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/refer.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/reserved.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/tables-of-contents.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/toc.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/typesetting.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/using.html:
            * contrib/mom/momdoc/version-2.html:
            * contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.1.man:
            * man/groff_out.5.man:
            * man/roff.7.man:
            * src/roff/groff/groff.1.man:
            * src/roff/troff/troff.1.man:
            * tmac/groff_trace.7.man:
            Make FDL license notices parallel in language, and remove
            invalid attempts to claim Invariant Sections.  Invariant
            Sections have to be Secondary Sections of the document.  "If a
            section does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it
            is not allowed to be designated as Invariant." (FDL 1.3, §1)

            Fortunately, all attempts at Invariant Section usage in groff
            were efforts to prevent effacement of the copyright and license
            notices.  Apart from such material already being protected under
            international copyright law, the FDL guards this information,
            which is not a "Secondary Section", from removal.

            "You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
            commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
            copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License
            applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that
            you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this
            License." (FDL 1.3, §2)

            "You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document
            under the conditions of section[] 2 [...] above" (FDL 1.3, §4)

            Consequently, all present efforts at applying FDL Invariant
            Sections in groff are invalid, but also redundant and
            unnecessary.

            Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53783>.


G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Group administrator
Mon 05 Nov 2018 01:08:45 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Fixed in b8500b708a0e64b3a8244c4ddce9ee43de12c290.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Group administrator
Sat 28 Apr 2018 10:52:03 PM UTC, original submission:  

Three man pages: The text "this .ig-section" no longer makes sense

  Commit f00378ada8106227d4cf2c052908051164380017 from 5th November 2017.

  Changes in some man pages about copyright.

  Example:
...; with the
Invariant Sections being this .ig-section and AUTHORS, with no
Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.

  "this .ig-section" is no longer visible, so this sentence (in three
man pages) needs to be reworded.

  An old version of groff (1.18.1.4, September 2002) showed, that the
text was inside a ".ig" block.

Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>

 

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    2022-06-15 gbranden CategoryNone General
    2018-11-05 gbranden Severity3 - Normal 2 - Minor
        StatusNone Fixed
        Assigned toNone gbranden
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Planned ReleaseNone 1.22.4

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