From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:16:59 -0500 Message-ID: <878y84t52h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102832488 17145 80.91.229.6 (12 Dec 2004 06:21:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org Original-X-From: xemacs-beta-bounces@xemacs.org Sun Dec 12 07:21:24 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([199.184.165.135] ident=ident-user) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CdN6h-0007o7-00 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 07:21:23 +0100 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (ident-user@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBC6Gv22019651; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:16:58 -0500 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (ident-user@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBC6GtnJ019645 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:16:55 -0500 Original-Received: (from xemacweb@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id iBC6Gt17019644 for xemacs-beta-mailman@xemacs.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:16:55 -0500 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (ident-user@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBC6Gs44019631 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:16:54 -0500 Original-Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id iBC6Gsed019630 for xemacweb@tux.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:16:54 -0500 Original-Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBC6GrrR019625 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:16:53 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.27.115]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20041212061651.LSHQ2034.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:16:51 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3DB7DD7318; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:16:59 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:39:43 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/622/Wed Dec 8 08:36:53 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on gwyn.tux.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/622/Wed Dec 8 08:36:53 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on gwyn.tux.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/622/Wed Dec 8 08:36:53 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on gwyn.tux.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/622/Wed Dec 8 08:36:53 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on gwyn.tux.org X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Status: Clean X-XEmacs-List: beta X-BeenThere: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: XEmacs Beta Testers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: xemacs-beta-bounces@xemacs.org Errors-To: xemacs-beta-bounces@xemacs.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:17414 gmane.emacs.devel:31023 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31023 > I do not understand why the GFDL exists at all. It seems to me that the > GPL is as adequate for manuals as it is for code. > The GPL was designed for software, not for books. The GPL's > requirements would be quite inconvenient for anyone who wanted to > publish a printed book from the material. > I think the GFDL says more or less what it ought to say. OK, for books it makes sense. But it doesn't for material such as the elisp manual (which is not published). Stefan