From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Licensing for source code contained in Emacs manuals Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:01:24 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542053252 27831 195.159.176.226 (12 Nov 2018 20:07:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 20:07:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 To: Daniel Pittman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, licensing@fsf.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 12 21:07:27 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 1gMIUZ-0007A9-Gi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:07:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50474 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMIWg-0004co-2v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:09:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58906) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMIV9-0001do-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:08:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMIOl-0005DS-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:01:33 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:34780) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMIOl-0005Cq-2b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:01:27 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE0F1600E3; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:01:25 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 4u8o6ymx6w1C; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:01:24 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC8B1600E9; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:01:24 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id sD3gcATg9SKF; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:01:24 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A8D9D1600A2; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:01:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:231102 Archived-At: Daniel Pittman wrote: > Would it be appropriate to extend the documentation to explicitly permit > reuse of the sample code in the Emacs flymake manual, or all Emacs manuals, > under the same license as Emacs itself? That is, sample code could be used > under the GFDL*or* the GPLv3 (at this time). I'm sure that could be fine. Alternatively, and without needing any special rules about this, the distribution could contain a separate copy of the code in question in standard source-code form, licensed under the GPL. The documentation could explain that the code itself is also available outside the documentation and that it is GPLed there. As a user, I'd prefer that to cutting and pasting out of the documentation.