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Date:      13 Feb 2001 17:30:47 +0100
From:      Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se>
Subject:   Re: BSD Documentation
Message-ID:  <84elx2o894.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se>
In-Reply-To: Nik Clayton's message of "Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:32:59 %2B0000"
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>>>>> "NC" == Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:

 >> The FAQ is also in the same relative path. We should put this into
 >> the FAQ as it's becoming a FAQ :)

 NC> It's in the FAQ.  Question 17 in the preface.

 NC> However, people don't seem to be noticing this, nor do they notice the
 NC> text at the front of the Handbook, and other docs, which explains this
 NC> as well.  At this point, I'd welcome suggestions for ways to make this
 NC> information more obvious.

(Sorry for replying to such old mail, I'm lagging a bit here.)

As Tim McMillen suggested, a split of the rather long paragrap into
two would be nice.  Also, all the books contain a rather long block of
legal text.  I for one are fed up with such texts, and thinks that if
anyone put something on the web, that gives me the right to read it,
and as long as I just want to read the page i ignore the legal stuff.
In this case, unfortunatley, this leads to ignoring the "welcome"
paragraph as well.

The legal stuff should only matter in specific cases, as if I want to
redistribute a book, so why bang innocent readers who are just reading
the web pages on the head with a lot of lawyer-speak?

So I think the word "Copyright" could be a link to the rest of the
legal stuff, which could reside either at the bottom of the frontpage
or on its own page.

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