From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright question Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:08:27 +0200 Message-ID: <85d4mmqs38.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <82BFC2C8-9E38-491F-863D-1C420AB13882@uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213304935 23658 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2008 21:08:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:08:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , Carsten Dominik , emacs-devel Mailinglist To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 12 23:09:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K6u31-0002Sd-F7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:09:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59729 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K6u2D-0006x7-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:08:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K6u27-0006uc-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K6u26-0006uD-AE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45880 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K6u26-0006u8-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:08:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.52]:38121) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K6u21-0001vZ-TD; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.36]) by mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C994C2A4; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:08:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (mail-in-16.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.56]) by mail-in-19-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D72B96BD8F; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:08:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-003-202.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.3.202]) by mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A49DC236E44; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:08:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 18AA31C39583; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:08:27 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:47:43 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93/7407/Mon Jun 9 04:21:00 2008 on mail-in-16.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:99044 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 21:40, Glenn Morris wrote: > >> I don't think this is your decision to make, since you are not the >> copyright holder. > > Well, Carsten is the author. Isn't he allowed to redistribute the Org > manual under new licensing (though that wouldn't affect previously > distributed copies, of course)? That would be weird... Sure. But we don't allow people to distribute what they like under the licenses they like as part of _Emacs_. This is more about the license policies of Emacs than of the FSF in general. I would guess that Richard is the right person to ask here. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum