OT docs was: Re: pygtk documentation?

[Friedrich Dominicus]

>   I started reading this book before doing any programming with gtk+
> (from any language), and it was a tolerable introduction.  It has
> problems, but those can mostly be ignored easily.  It is *not* a
> reference manual, unfortunately, and the index is very incomplete.
>   The "GTK+ Reference Documentation Project" at www.gtk.org seems
> questionable as an open source project: too many paragraphs of the
> introduction to the project start with "Although the details have not
> yet been finalized, ...". 

What does this have to do if the stuff is Open Source or not?  I think
everbody knows that GTK is a fast moving target but why is it not open
then?

> This is not likely to encourage
> contributions.  Contributors want to know what the license on their
> contributions will be!

Please explain, I can't follow anyway.

Regards
Friedrich