R devel - Jul 2003 - missing permissions in reference manual copyright page (PR#3528)

Hi,

I noticed that the R reference manual seems to be missing the license
permissions on the copyright page.  Below is a patch to "refman.top"
which adds the same permissions as the @permission{} macro in
"R-defs.texi".

I'm filing this bug as I have been preparing to publish the R
Reference Manual (in several volumes). I plan to donate 5 EUR to the
R-foundation for each set of manuals sold.

best regards,

-- 
Brian Gough

Network Theory Ltd            
15 Royal Park                 
Bristol BS8 3AL               
United Kingdom                

Tel: +44 (0)117 3179309 
Fax: +44 (0)117 9048108              
Web: http://www.network-theory.co.uk/

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    \vfill
    \noindent
    Copyright ({\copyright}) 1999--2002 R Development Core Team.
+ 
+   \noindent
+   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.
+ 
+   \noindent
+   Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
+   manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
+   entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
+   permission notice identical to this one.
+ 
+   \noindent
+   Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
+   into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions,
+   except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation
+   approved by the R Development Core Team.
+ 
    \par\bigskip\noindent
    R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  You are
    welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public

bjg at network-theory.co.uk (bjg@network-theory.co.uk) writes:
 > I noticed that the R reference manual seems to be missing the license
 > permissions on the copyright page.  Below is a patch to
"refman.top"
 > which adds the same permissions as the @permission{} macro in
 > "R-defs.texi".

Hi,

I'd be grateful if someone could give me a quick indication of the
likely outcome of PR#3528 (whether the R Reference manual is freely
redistributable).  This would help me a lot in scheduling the
production of the manual.  Thanks.

best regards,

-- 
Brian Gough

Network Theory Ltd            
15 Royal Park                 
Bristol BS8 3AL               
United Kingdom                

Tel: +44 (0)117 3179309 
Fax: +44 (0)117 9048108              
Web: http://www.network-theory.co.uk/

Brian:

Several weeks ago you posted about the missing permissions in the R
reference manual, and asked whether the manual is freely
distributable.  You didn't get a reply, I think because everyone is
travelling so much this summer.

The answer is yes, the manual is covered under the same GPL as the
rest of R.  I've added the paragraphs to the reference manual source
in the patch version of 1.7.1; they should migrate to 1.8.0 as well.

Thanks for sending them.

Duncan Murdoch