From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24520: 25.1.50; calccard.tex has somewhat unclear licensing Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 13:06:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83lgx7qxjb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wpi2l9yp.fsf@Sam-laptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <83h98keben.fsf@gnu.org> <83vawt1zay.fsf@gnu.org> <81k2d7bvhh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83h983nr67.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477735650 6289 195.159.176.226 (29 Oct 2016 10:07:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 10:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: naesten@gmail.com, 24520@debbugs.gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 29 12:07:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c0QXe-0007VH-Ge for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 29 Oct 2016 06:06:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49777) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c0QXH-0000TF-Iy; Sat, 29 Oct 2016 06:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1173 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c0QX9-000445-Ih; Sat, 29 Oct 2016 06:06:40 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:26:08 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:125103 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > 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 . - % 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.