From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Manual licenses Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:24:09 -0400 Message-ID: <87lkgtcow6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <873b32jlkx.fsf@truman.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176672278 24013 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2007 21:24:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: belanger@truman.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 15 23:24:30 2007 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 1HdCCy-0001vm-WC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:24:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdCHW-0003iS-07 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:29:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdCHS-0003fy-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdCHR-0003fR-RI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from south-station-annex.mit.edu ([18.72.1.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HdCCu-0003Bj-00; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:24:24 -0400 Original-Received: from grand-central-station.mit.edu (GRAND-CENTRAL-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.82]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l3FLOMWc012004; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:24:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by grand-central-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l3FLOEXA027413; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:24:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost (SYDNEYPACIFIC-SEVEN-FIFTY-SEVEN.MIT.EDU [18.95.7.246]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l3FLO9j4020256; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:24:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cyd by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HdCCf-0006PD-00; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:24:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 15 Apr 2007 15\:01\:09 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9.1 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:69471 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Each manual should contain a copy of the GFDL, because we want them > to be separately distributable. > > Can people please work on that Fixed. > and the other points below? > > A few other things I noticed, which may or may not be worth noting. > Several manuals have old dates on the cover page. (Calc does, but I'm > going to remove that.) Fixed. > The ERC manual is under the GFDL, but doesn't give a pointer to > a copy if it in the copyright notice. Fixed. > A couple of manuals (dired-x, the faq) aren't under the GFDL. I went ahead and relicensed dired-x. Do we can to relicense the FAQ? It seem to have a special-purpose license, and to be deliberately not under the GFDL. > A couple of manuals (flymake, newsticker) don't have an "@insertcopying" > line in the title page, so the copyright doesn't appear when they're > processed. (I'd say the same about widget, but that doesn't have a > title page.) Fixed. > A couple of manuals (pgg, url) have copyright notices which mention > that the GFDL is included as a section, but it isn't. Fixed.