From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: naesten@gmail.com, 24520@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24520: 25.1.50; calccard.tex has somewhat unclear licensing
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 13:06:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lgx7qxjb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1byT5c-0002t7-Bd@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:26:08 -0400)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: rgm@gnu.org, naesten@gmail.com, 24520@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:26:08 -0400
>
> > > My own take is that the "this is part of Emacs" GPL blurb in the tex source
> > > should be removed, for clarity.
>
> I agree it should not say the words "this is part of GNU Emacs".
>
> > > > Perhaps what we need is (1) an additional permission saying that
> > > > reference cards printed, or formatted for printing, may be distributed
> > > > with the notice "Released under the terms of the GNU General Public
> > > > License version 3 or later" and a copyright notice, without the usual
> > > > GPL notice and without a copy of the GPL itself.
>
> I think this is what we should do, in the refcard source. How about
> this text?
>
> As a special additional permission, you may distribute reference cards
> printed, or formatted for printing, with the notice "Released under
> the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later"
> instead of the usual distributed-under-the-GNU-GPL notice, and without
> a copy of the GPL itself.
Is the patch below what you had in mind? (I'm unsure whether you
meant to put the above text in the TeX source as a comment or as part
of the Copyright notice group; I did the latter.)
> Then change the notice used in the formated file
> to say that.
I don't understand what that means in practice. Wouldn't processing
the TeX sources do that automatically?
diff --git a/etc/refcards/calccard.tex b/etc/refcards/calccard.tex
index 5ca8207..0874de7 100644
--- a/etc/refcards/calccard.tex
+++ b/etc/refcards/calccard.tex
@@ -20,23 +20,6 @@
% Typical command to format: tex calccard.tex
% Typical command to print (3 cols): dvips -t landscape calccard.dvi
-% Copyright (C) 1987, 1992, 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-% This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-
-% GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-% it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-% the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-% (at your option) any later version.
-
-% GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-% GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-% along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
% This file is intended to be processed by plain TeX (TeX82).
%
% The final reference card has six columns, three on each side.
@@ -79,6 +62,12 @@
this card provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved on all copies.
+As a special additional permission, you may distribute reference cards
+printed, or formatted for printing, with the notice "Released under
+the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later"
+instead of the usual distributed-under-the-GNU-GPL notice, and without
+a copy of the GPL itself.
+
%For copies of the GNU Emacs Calc manual, write to the Free Software
%Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
%MA 02110-1301, USA.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-29 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-23 18:58 bug#24520: 25.1.50; calccard.tex has somewhat unclear licensing naesten
2016-10-10 10:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-15 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-16 10:40 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-16 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-17 19:51 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-17 0:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-17 1:43 ` Glenn Morris
2016-10-17 19:54 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-18 16:10 ` Glenn Morris
2016-10-18 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-23 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-24 0:26 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-29 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-29 16:38 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-29 21:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-31 19:18 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-02 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-03 1:24 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-03 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-12 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-12 22:28 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-13 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-13 23:56 ` Glenn Morris
2016-11-14 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-15 0:29 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-15 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-16 21:04 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-18 7:28 ` Glenn Morris
2016-11-18 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-15 0:25 ` Richard Stallman
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