From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Function for quoting Emacs manual sections? Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:38:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877hf6p3fo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87y67lopu6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87d3oxog5r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292855903 14975 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2010 14:38:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 20 15:38:19 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUgsU-0000hR-5c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:38:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37085 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUgsS-0004jc-4x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:38:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57985 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUgsN-0004hd-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:38:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUgsM-0006Jo-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:38:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:40698) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUgsL-0006Jk-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:38:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUgsI-0005jP-PZ; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:38:06 -0500 In-reply-to: <87d3oxog5r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:56:16 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:133839 Archived-At: Sure. Namely it is forbidden by default. You can't quote any creative content Please don't call works "content" -- that term disparages the works themselves. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html. that would suffice for not needing to get access the original. Because then you are providing value only the copyright holder is permitted to provide. I think you are talking about the standards of fair use, and I think you have interpreted them in a manner that is overly limited. -- Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org