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Interview: Eben Moglen

Interview: Eben Moglen

Posted Aug 18, 2005 7:39 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Interview: Eben Moglen by syntaxis
Parent article: Interview: Eben Moglen

And the Debian project ...

The FDL has been declared non-free, so any program who's documentation is FDL cannot go into main ...

(This ties in with another bugaboo of mine - all Debian programs must have man pages :-) I absolutely HATE info because I find it a nightmare to navigate! It might only be lack of experience, but "man man" gives you everything you need. "info info" presumes a knowledge of how to use info - chicken and egg comes to mind ...)

Cheers,
Wol


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Interview: Eben Moglen

Posted Aug 18, 2005 18:33 UTC (Thu) by mcm (guest, #31917) [Link]

>(This ties in with another bugaboo of mine - all Debian programs must have
>man pages :-) I absolutely HATE info because I find it a nightmare to
>navigate!

try pinfo, it's a curses frontend to info:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pinfo/

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