Free Software needs Free Documentation

[Don]

spir wrote:
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html
> 
> I think this applies directly to D2.
> 
> Note: this post is no offence to Andrei's great work. Just a report we 
> /also/ need a free/copyleft D2 manual; or that TDPL's content becomes 
> free in a short while. Even more since TDPL was kind of a premature 
> publication, describing not-yet-implemented, even less validated, 
> features. Online addenda / corrections / rewritings cannot fill the gap.
> Unfortunately, our society's culture is such that people will rarely 
> *buy* a free-like-in-freedom book to thank authors and allow them going 
> on working for the community. This nearly forces people who wish to get 
> something back from their (usually huge) work to publish in a 
> proprietary way; for software, even more PLs, making frozen manuals for 
> live tools, and making improvements impossible.
> 
> Denis

I would say that what we really need is tutorials, rather than a 
refernce work. Most urgently we need to make sure that the existing 
tutorials that contain errors or refer to obsolete/removed features, get 
pulled down.