From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright question Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:16:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <82BFC2C8-9E38-491F-863D-1C420AB13882@uva.nl> <20080613095819.GB2618@muc.de> <20080614120324.GA4589@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213471152 4524 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2008 19:19:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:19:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dominik@uva.nl, Richard M Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 14 21:19:55 2008 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 4.50) id 1K7bI2-0000r5-O1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:19:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7bHE-0008Do-JV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:19:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7bHA-0008D4-0y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7bH7-0008CM-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58238 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7bH7-0008CJ-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:56405) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K7bH7-0007I9-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K7bF2-0002w5-KC; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:16:48 -0400 X-Spook: cypherpunk 2600 Magazine World Trade Center Etacs Albania X-Ran: /rRyXq~_:yZZ.2E\d`l+JD!g5&GcBC$;O~Vb)I,Dr0*oh33TI}_!gp[5^h95knt`x??@j{ X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <20080614120324.GA4589@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:03:25 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:99206 Archived-At: 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.