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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: dominik@uva.nl, Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Copyright question
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:16:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ho4p7vzv1b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080614120324.GA4589@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat,  14 Jun 2008 12:03:25 +0000")

Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> For example, in the CC Mode manual, there is a page "Sample .emacs
> file". If anyone were to copy this page into her .emacs and modify
> it (which is the whole idea), she would then have to license her
> .emacs under the GFDL before passing it on.

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

    If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
    recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice
    of free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
    to permit their use in free software.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-14 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-12 14:43 Copyright question Carsten Dominik
2008-06-12 19:30 ` David Hansen
2008-06-12 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13  8:19   ` Carsten Dominik
2008-06-13  9:59     ` David Kastrup
2008-06-13 22:48     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-14 13:15       ` Carsten Dominik
2008-06-14 20:11         ` Don Armstrong
2008-06-15 17:55         ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-12 19:40 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-12 20:47   ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-12 20:51     ` İsmail Dönmez
2008-06-12 23:31       ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-13  8:55         ` Andreas Röhler
2008-06-13  9:44           ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-13  9:36             ` Miles Bader
2008-06-13 13:35               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13 10:35             ` Andreas Röhler
2008-06-13 11:00               ` David Kastrup
2008-06-12 21:08     ` David Kastrup
2008-06-12 21:31 ` Don Armstrong
2008-06-12 23:03   ` Bastien
2008-06-13  3:13     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-06-13  4:06 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-13  7:58   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-13  9:51   ` David Kastrup
2008-06-13  9:58   ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-13 22:48     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-14 12:03       ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-14 19:16         ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2008-06-14 19:28         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-14 21:36         ` David Kastrup

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