From e3ae49e8db3d50a8d3680f8898bc084c6b7e627c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Whitten Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 22:16:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add links to readme.md added links to documentation. No mention is made in this document re how to assign copyright to Graham Nelson for changes to source code. Likewise, no mention in this document of how to assign copyright to Graham Nelson for changes to documentation. --- README.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index de0bb4d4..b87efda7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,28 +4,28 @@ v7.1.0-beta+1B02 'Escape to Danger' (4 May 2022) ## About Inweb -Inweb offers a modern approach to literate programming. Unlike the original +Inweb offers a modern approach to literate programming (LP). Unlike the original LP tools of the late 1970s, led by Donald Knuth, or of the 1990s revival, Inweb aims to serve programmers in the Github age. It scales to much larger -programs than CWEB, and since 2004 has been the tool used by the +programs than [CWEB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_(programming_system)#CWEB), and since 2004 has been the tool used by the [Inform programming language project](https://github.com/ganelson/inform), where it manages a 300,000-line code base. -Literate programming is a methodology created by Donald Knuth in the late +Literate programming is a methodology created by [Donald Knuth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth) in the late 1970s. A literate program, or "web", is written as a narrative intended to be readable by humans as well as by other programs. Inweb is itself written as -a web, and its human-readable form is a [companion website to this one](https://ganelson.github.io/inweb/index.html). +a web, and its human-readable form is a [compan[ion website to this one](https://ganelson.github.io/inweb/index.html). For the Inweb manual, see [★ inweb/Preliminaries](https://ganelson.github.io/inweb/inweb/M-iti). ## Licence and copyright Except as noted, copyright in material in this repository (the "Package") is -held by Graham Nelson (the "Author"), who retains copyright so that there is +held by [Graham Nelson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Nelson) (the "Author"), who retains copyright so that there is a single point of reference. As from the first date of this repository becoming public, 28 April 2022, the Package is placed under the [Artistic License 2.0](https://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-2.0). -This is a highly permissive licence, used by Perl among other notable projects, +This is a highly permissive licence, used by [Perl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl) among other notable projects, recognised by the Open Source Initiative as open and by the Free Software Foundation as free in both senses.