From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Licensing for source code contained in Emacs manuals Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 21:26:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1545618307 9204 195.159.176.226 (24 Dec 2018 02:25:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 02:25:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: licensing@fsf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Pittman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 24 03:25:03 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gbFvS-0002IX-Iv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2018 03:25:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60996 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gbFxZ-0000AP-4p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 21:27:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56913) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gbFwv-0000AC-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 21:26:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gbFwu-000366-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 21:26:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45491) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gbFws-00032d-E5; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 21:26:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gbFws-000799-8c; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 21:26:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Daniel Pittman on Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:24:06 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231973 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. ]]] The solution I've come up with for code examples that are useful to copy into programs is to put a copy of the code example in a code source file, which would be released under a free license for software. For a large and specialized example, put it under the GPL. For a smaller example (but long enough to matter for copyright), you can use CC0. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)