discuss: Confusion about GNU FDL
Subject:
Re: Confusion about GNU FDL
From:
Charles Curley ####@####.####
Date:
15 May 2002 16:53:34 -0000
Message-Id: <20020515105214.A18833@trib.com>
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:21:44AM -0400, Greg Ferguson wrote:
> On May 15, 7:29am, David Merrill wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Confusion about GNU FDL
> > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:37:26PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I wrote the second edition of the Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO. It
> seems
> > > to have been reasonably well received.
> > >
> > > It's licensed under the LDP License, which apparently is non-free.
> I'd
> > > like to fix that.
> > >
> > > I looked at the GNU FDL and I don't understand it at all.
> > >
> > > What are the recommended Invariant Sections, Front Cover Texts and
> Back
> > > Cover Texts for a typical LDP document?
> >
> > I would ask you to have none of those sections. They are not really
> > useful unless you are an actual publisher who intends to sell the
> > book.
>
> Here's the GFDL license DocBook XML/SGML snippet:
>
> <!-- Legal Sections -->
> <sect2 id="copyright">
> <title>Copyright and License</title>
>
> <!-- The LDP recommends, but doesn't require, the GFDL -->
> <para>
> This document, <emphasis>Sample XML HOWTO</emphasis>,
> is copyrighted (c) 2002 by <emphasis>author_name</emphasis>.
> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
> document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
> License, Version 1.1 or any later version published
> by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections,
> with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.
> A copy of the license is available at
> <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html</ulink>.
> </para>
> </sect2>
Is it unnecessary to put the entire license in your document?
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<type 'exceptions.IOError'> | Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python
Wed Jul 3 15:26:17 2024 |
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of
function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main() |
424
|
425 if path is not None:
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426 main_path(path)
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427 else:
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428 main_form()
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| global main_form = <function main_form at 0xa270c6c> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main_form() |
378 except ImportError:
|
379 die(ctxt, "Invalid command")
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380 module.do(ctxt)
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381
|
382 def main():
|
| module = <module 'commands.showmsg' from '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.pyc'>, module.do = <function do at 0xa279304>, global ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 7, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'} |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.py in do(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 7, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}) |
18 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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19 write('<hr>')
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20 sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM])
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21 write('<hr>')
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22 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
|
| global sub_showmsg = <function sub_showmsg at 0xa2701ec>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 7, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, global MSGNUM = 'msgnum' |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showmsg(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 7, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msgnum=3078) |
229 format_timestamp(ctxt, ctxt)
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230 write(html('msg-header') % ctxt)
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231 rec_showpart(ctxt, msg, 0)
|
232 write(html('msg-footer') % ctxt)
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233 ctxt.pop()
|
| global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0xa2701b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 7, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msg = <email.message.Message instance at 0xa2cfd4c> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 7, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0xa2cfd4c>, partnum=1) |
205 else:
|
206 for p in part.get_payload():
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207 partnum = rec_showpart(ctxt, p, partnum+1)
|
208 else:
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209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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| partnum = 1, global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0xa2701b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 7, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, p = <email.message.Message instance at 0xa2cffec> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 7, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0xa2cffec>, partnum=2) |
208 else:
|
209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
|
210 sub_showpart(ctxt, part)
|
211 return partnum
|
212
|
| global sub_showpart = <function sub_showpart at 0xa270144>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 7, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part = <email.message.Message instance at 0xa2cffec> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 7, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0xa2cffec>) |
164 type = ctxt[TYPE] = part.get_content_type()
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165 ctxt[FILENAME] = part.get_filename()
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166 template = html('msg-' + type.replace('/', '-'))
|
167 if not template:
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168 template = html('msg-' + type[:type.find('/')])
|
| global template = <function template at 0xa268e9c>, global html = <function html at 0xa268ed4>, type = 'application/pgp-signature', type.replace = <built-in method replace of str object at 0xa2d4cd0> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in html(name='msg-application-pgp-signature') |
40
|
41 def html(name):
|
42 return template(name + '.html')
|
43
|
44 def xml(name):
|
| global template = <function template at 0xa268e9c>, name = 'msg-application-pgp-signature' |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in template(filename='msg-application-pgp-signature.html') |
31 except IOError:
|
32 if not _template_zipfile:
|
33 _template_zipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[0])
|
34 try:
|
35 f = _template_zipfile.open(n).read()
|
| global _template_zipfile = None, global zipfile = <module 'zipfile' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.pyc'>, zipfile.ZipFile = <class zipfile.ZipFile at 0xa201a7c>, global sys = <module 'sys' (built-in)>, sys.argv = ['-c', '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20'] |
| /usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py in __init__(self=<zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0xa27ca8c>, file='-c', mode='r', compression=0, allowZip64=False) |
337 self.filename = file
|
338 modeDict = {'r' : 'rb', 'w': 'wb', 'a' : 'r+b'}
|
339 self.fp = open(file, modeDict[mode])
|
340 else:
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341 self._filePassed = 1
|
| self = <zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0xa27ca8c>, self.fp = None, builtin open = <built-in function open>, file = '-c', modeDict = {'a': 'r+b', 'r': 'rb', 'w': 'wb'}, mode = 'r' |
<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-c'
args =
(2, 'No such file or directory')
errno =
2
filename =
'-c'
message =
''
strerror =
'No such file or directory'
