This footnote might be related to https://github.com/open62541/open62541/pull/2349#issuecomment-451748949 but without any context its IMHO not appropriate for a "first steps".
@@ -110,6 +110,4 @@ int main(void) {
*
* The server configuration and lifecycle management is needed for all servers.
* We will use it in the following tutorials without further comment.
- *
- * .. [#f1] Be careful with global variables in multi-threaded applications. You
- * might want to allocate the ``running`` variable on the heap. */
+ */