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: Good book on Git Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:17:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141114125640.46af036c@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20141114163202.4151b97e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416068264 18375 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2014 16:17:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 15 17:17:40 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpg2d-0005HW-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 17:17:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40997 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpg2d-0004PT-Dz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:17:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34105) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpg2a-0004PO-Js for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:17:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpg2Y-0000wD-Hf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:17:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpg2Y-0000w9-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:17:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpg2X-0001Om-Mg; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:17:33 -0500 In-reply-to: <20141114163202.4151b97e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177195 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > It isn't "free" (it is the non non-commercial variant, and to be > free-as-in-freedom it would need to allow copying for commercial use) This shows why the term "Creative-Commons licensed" should be avoided: because it draws attention away from the most important licensing question (is it free or not) and focuses it on a side issue (who published the license). Focusing attention on freedom is vital no matter what your immediate purpose. So please don't ever say "Creative-Commons licensed". Instead, please state the specific license. CC-SA-NC is clear and brief. > BTW, it is more of a textbook than a manual. Please don't think that "manual" means "terse reference that is not useful as an introduction". That is just one kind of manual. Every free program should have a good introductory manual, too. If the best git introduction is nonfree, that is very unfortunate. Who wrote it? Is there any chance of persuading per to free it? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.