From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Good book on Git Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:32:02 -0500 Message-ID: <20141114163202.4151b97e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20141114125640.46af036c@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416000739 15249 80.91.229.3 (14 Nov 2014 21:32:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 21:32:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 22:32:14 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XpOTW-0005iO-Bm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:32:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37943 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpOTV-0007TV-V6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:32:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49122) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpOTQ-0007TQ-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:32:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpOTM-0007Vt-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([166.84.7.14]:45379) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpOTM-0007Vp-7B; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:32:04 -0500 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776B9294; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:32:03 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344162DE087; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:32:03 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 166.84.7.14 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177126 Archived-At: On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:53:02 -0500 Richard Stallman wrote: > > http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 > > > and is creative commons licensed. > > Beware of saying things are "creative commons licensed" as if that > were significant. There are six Creative Commons licenses. Two are > free, four are not. See > stallman.org/articles/online-education.html. > > Which Creative Commons license does that manual use? > It isn't "free" (it is the non non-commercial variant, and to be free-as-in-freedom it would need to allow copying for commercial use) but I was not suggesting this for incorporation into software (which would not be possible), only that it is a useful reference for people learning Git. The project has a lot of people who want to learn Git in a hurry, and it isn't a bad book for that purpose. BTW, it is more of a textbook than a manual. The Git manuals that come with Git itself are of course fully free, but they are not always the easiest introduction. -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com