From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta Subject: Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:03:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <878y84t52h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102968329 23994 80.91.229.6 (13 Dec 2004 20:05:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:05:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , ben@666.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 13 21:05:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CdwRP-0007uX-00 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:05:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CdwbW-0000Tv-7L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:15:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CdwbL-0000SL-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:15:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CdwbK-0000RU-1Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:15:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CdwbJ-0000RQ-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:15:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CdwQu-0001m4-Ln for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:04:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CdwLn-0006Uq-9I; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:59:24 -0500 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:51:20 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31082 gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:17447 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31082 Richard Stallman writes: > OK, for books it makes sense. But it doesn't for material such > as the elisp manual (which is not published). > > We published it in the past, and I hope that we or others will publish > it in the future. Is there some drawback that we'd have to encounter if things like the Elisp manual were dual-licenced GPL and GFDL? While I don't think that this would help the XEmacs people with their current predicament, it would at least guarantee that stuff like that does not get excluded from Debian distributions; and with the electronic forms of the manuals, the GPL appears more appropriate to me. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum