Re: w3 manual does not permit modification?

That was just boilerplate I copied from another texinfo manual at the
time (1995?)

I haven't had time to maintain emacs-w3 in years unfortunately - I'm
not even sure I have the ssh key to get into savannah CVS any more.

It was certainly not my intention to prevent modification - I always
hated writing documentation the most and would have loved to have
someone else do it.

-bp

On 3/26/06, Ben Pfaff <blp <at> cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> The texinfo manual for w3 has the following license notice:
>
>     Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
>     this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
>     are preserved on all copies.
>
>     Permission is granted to process this file through Tex and print the
>     results, provided the printed document carries copying permission
>     notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
>     (this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual).
>
>     Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of@*
>     this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice@*
>     are preserved on all copies.
>
> This doesn't give any permission to modify the manual.  Is this
> intentional?  Could you clarify the license?
> --
> Ben Pfaff
> email: blp <at> cs.stanford.edu
> web: http://benpfaff.org
>