I am also not a lawyer, but I believe that Robert is correct, if the
reference manual is distributed under the GPL, you are free to publish it
yourself. In this new day and age, you can do so on a small or large scale
through sites such as Cafe Press (www.cafepress.com) (see Help -> Book
publishing). Indeed I have known many from the open source community that
have used this to create their own texts for their respective projects at a
reasonable cost and good quality.
I do not, however, see any explicit note in the PDF file that says that the
_documentation_ is released under the GPL (only with regards to the
source). Also since Maxima/Macsyma has been released under several licenses
in the past, including non-free ones, I believe that it is possible (though
unlikely?) that this document is not GPL'd even if previous manuals were.
The license and `freeness' of the documentation would be a good thing to
clear up.
Zach
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 4/27/08, Thomas Widlar <twidlar at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > 800 pages is the maximum size book they can print.
>
> The reference manual might be bigger than 800 pages now.
> Maybe only the stuff about core functionality could be printed
> (omitting the stuff about share packages).
>
> best
>
> Robert Dodier
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