From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta Subject: Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:14:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <000e01c4de3e$79c92320$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102720760 25940 80.91.229.6 (10 Dec 2004 23:19:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:19:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 11 00:19:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ccu2a-0005ZH-00 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:19:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CcuCY-0003Sm-KE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CcuCO-0003Qv-Ho for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:29:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CcuCM-0003Pj-IQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:29:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CcuCM-0003Pg-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:29:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ccu2A-0006Wk-6h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:18:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CctyU-0007l0-D7; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:14:58 -0500 Original-To: "Ben Wing" In-reply-to: <000e01c4de3e$79c92320$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> (ben@666.com) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30983 gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:17390 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30983 The GNU Emacs user's manual has changed its license to the GFDL. The XEmacs manual has a different license -- the GPL. Because of contributions from various parties, we cannot easily change our license, Too bad. I won't relicense such a large amount of material all together. If you show me specific parts you would like to use, I will consider relicensing them.