From 86b382be842b8b7f97a7a9f985a2116ad428d9c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ng0 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 11:26:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bump copyright year, extend "About this book" with a disclaimer --- doc/handbook/chapters/preface.texi | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------- doc/handbook/gnunet.texi | 2 +- 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/handbook/chapters/preface.texi b/doc/handbook/chapters/preface.texi index 386cefa6d..4b6610d2c 100644 --- a/doc/handbook/chapters/preface.texi +++ b/doc/handbook/chapters/preface.texi @@ -27,14 +27,31 @@ that the content is described in a way that does not require any academic background, although some concepts will require further reading. -Our (long-term) goal with these books is to keep them self-contained. If -you see references to Wikipedia and other external sources (except for -our academic papers) it means that we are working on a solution to -describe the explanations found there which fits our use-case and licensing. - -The first chapter (``Preface'') as well as the the second -chapter (``Philosophy'') give an introduction to GNUnet as a project, -what GNUnet tries to achieve. +Our (long-term) goal with these books is to keep them +self-contained. If you see references to Wikipedia and other external +sources (except for our academic papers) it means that we are working +on a solution to describe the explanations found there which fits our +use-case and licensing. + +Previously the documentation was contained in Drupal books, on the +old website. It was considered unmaintainable for the future, so +Texinfo was chosen. You might find old and very old sections in +here in addition to more recent content. It took a long time to +finish the move to Texinfo (from Drupal to LaTeX to wrong Texinfo +output dump to good Texinfo) and only recently (late 2018, early +2019 content checking started. We apologize to the reader for +any inconvenience and hope you apply logic where bad advice from +10 years ago can be found (pipe to sudo to install software is +one example). + +The first chapter (``Preface'') as well as the the second chapter +(``Philosophy'') give an introduction to GNUnet as a project, what +GNUnet tries to achieve. ``Key Concepts'' explains the key concepts +in GNUnet. +These three chapters are the most complete in the documentation. +They are followed by chapters which need more work: +``Installing GNUnet'', ``GNUnet Contributors Handbook'' and +``GNUnet Developer Handbook''. @node Contributing to this book @section Contributing to this book diff --git a/doc/handbook/gnunet.texi b/doc/handbook/gnunet.texi index bfcc580d9..a622c8f49 100644 --- a/doc/handbook/gnunet.texi +++ b/doc/handbook/gnunet.texi @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ @c @set OPENPGP-SIGNING-KEY-ID @copying -Copyright @copyright{} 2001-2018 GNUnet e.V. +Copyright @copyright{} 2001-2019 GNUnet e.V. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or -- 2.25.1