[pkg-firebird-general] Firebird2.1alpha1(build 15199) packages available

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Tamas TEVESZ, Wed, 23 May 2007 14:25:00 +0200 (CEST) |=-
> On Wed, 23 May 2007, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> 
>  > Doh! My bad. See http://bugs.debian.org/419596
> 
> much better thanks ;)
> 
> yes, this indeed is a problem. i've looked into this a couple of 
> months ago, and what i noticed is that even those utilities that have 
> a little more usable manual look much like as if they had their
> manual copied straight from the ib6 (pdf) docs, complete with
> spelling, grammar and language errors as is.

Which ones are these? It would be better to drop them completely and
write something from scratch :(

> since it would be pretty obvious to fix the xs and the question marks 
> taking the same route, i do feel bringing this up is important.
> 
> two points for starters:
> 
> - don't "fix' it by copying the ib docs

Totally agreed! Aside from the legal problems, firebird has changed a
lot since IB6.0

> - what would be the legal status of the existing manpages?

Stolen?

Which manpages you suspect are copy&pasted from IB6.0 PDFs?

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