WP 34S: CASE example issue in the latest manual
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06-08-2016, 11:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-08-2016 11:18 AM by BartDB.)
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RE: WP 34S: CASE example issue in the latest manual
So here's my take on the status of the manual:
He then decided some money was to be made. In order to maximise profits he decided to retro-actively assert copyright on previously released material. "morally right"? The spirit of open-source is that the user has access to the source - including the source of the documentation. WP-34s software id released under GPL, a licence for open-source software provided by the Free Software Foundation. It encourages the documentation (and source thereof) to be published under GNU FDL. From the Preamble of the GNU FDL 1.3: "We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free software, because free software needs free documentation: a free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the software does." (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html) (I have included the link to page so everyone can read it in context). Note that FSF always asserts that "free" is not about price, but it is about the users' right to copy, modify and redistribute. So what (or who) is "morally right"? (edited to correct spelling) |
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