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From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@floss.red-bean.com>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual
Date: 13 Dec 2004 20:56:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878y81a8ql.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1Cdfqo-0004R2C@rattlesnake.com>

"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:
> Instead, I have tried to say that the goal is to persuade others to
> choose the GFDL over a `Creative Commons license with a commercial
> restriction' or similar license.  The GFDL is better.

There's been much contrasting of the GFDL w/ the GPL, or the GFDL with
a "Creative Commons license with commercial restriction".

I've never meant to suggest either of those, but rather licenses
similar to the Creative Commons Plain Attribution or ShareAlike.
(Note: I'm not advocating using an actual Creative Commons license,
I'm just trying to shake us out of this rut in which the only
alternatives to the GFDL are the GPL or some overly-restrictive
Creative Commons license).

This thread has been very active, so I apologize if my question below
doesn't take into account something someone said.  I tried to read all
the posts, but might have missed a few.  Anyway:

For Emacs, what advantages does the GFDL have over (say) Creative
Commons Plain Attribution or Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike?

Again, this is only about the application of the GFDL to Emacs, *not*
about the GFDL in general.

-Karl



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-14  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-09 22:28 Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual Ben Wing
2004-12-10 23:14 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-11  0:59   ` Ben Wing
2004-12-11  1:06     ` Miles Bader
2004-12-11 10:27   ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-12-11 18:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-11 20:43       ` David Kastrup
2004-12-11 19:02     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-12  0:26       ` Karl Fogel
2004-12-12  8:57         ` David Kastrup
2004-12-12 16:56           ` Brian Palmer
2004-12-12 13:31       ` Matthew Mundell
2004-12-12 13:40         ` David Kastrup
2004-12-12  2:03     ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-12  4:59       ` Karl Fogel
     [not found]         ` <m1CdWGG-0004R2C@rattlesnake.com>
2004-12-12 17:43           ` David Kastrup
2004-12-12 18:39             ` Florian Weimer
2004-12-12 19:24               ` David Kastrup
2004-12-12 19:49                 ` Florian Weimer
2004-12-12 19:43             ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-12 19:59               ` David Kastrup
2004-12-12 20:46                 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-12 21:00               ` Andy Piper
2004-12-13  1:59                 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-13  2:23                   ` David Kastrup
2004-12-13 12:34                   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-12-13 16:53                     ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-15 14:23                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2004-12-15 19:14                         ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-15 20:19                           ` David Kastrup
2004-12-15 23:32                             ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-17  5:36                               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2004-12-15 23:20                         ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-16 10:58                           ` David Kastrup
2004-12-16 12:18                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-16 12:29                             ` Kim F. Storm
2004-12-17  0:53                             ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-18 10:20                               ` Ben Wing
2004-12-18 23:32                                 ` Miles Bader
2004-12-19  6:31                                   ` Ben Wing
2004-12-19  6:32                                   ` Ben Wing
2004-12-19 13:54                                 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-19 15:40                                 ` David Kastrup
2004-12-19 16:10                                   ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-12-19 21:32                                     ` David Kastrup
2004-12-19 23:48                                       ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-12-20  8:07                                         ` David Kastrup
2004-12-20 14:05                                         ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-20  0:19                                       ` Ben Wing
2004-12-20  7:20                                         ` David Kastrup
2004-12-20 10:58                                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2004-12-20 10:56                                 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-20 12:47                                   ` David Kastrup
2004-12-17  1:32                           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2004-12-12  4:39     ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-12  6:16       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-12 21:28         ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-12 21:43           ` David Kastrup
2004-12-13  2:22             ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-13  6:48               ` Brian Palmer
2004-12-13 10:05                 ` David Kastrup
2004-12-13 17:44                   ` Bruce Stephens
2004-12-14 13:09                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2004-12-14  2:56               ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2004-12-14 14:16                 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-13  4:23           ` Dhruva
2004-12-13 19:51         ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-13 20:03           ` David Kastrup
2004-12-14 10:03             ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-12-14 10:14               ` David Kastrup
2004-12-14 14:09             ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-14 14:25               ` David Kastrup
2004-12-14 20:19                 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-14 22:09                   ` David Kastrup
2004-12-15  0:12                     ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-15  8:03                   ` Per Abrahamsen

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