From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GPL v.1 in the Calc manual Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 20:06:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <873bu99ipx.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112465526 2385 80.91.229.2 (2 Apr 2005 18:12:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 18:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 02 20:11:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DHn63-0000w5-AY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 20:11:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DHn7Z-0006Zk-Bx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:13:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DHn7O-0006Z7-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:13:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DHn7L-0006Xu-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:13:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DHn7K-0006WN-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:13:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DHn12-00014D-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:06:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DHn0P-0001nv-9G; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:05:57 -0500 Original-To: belanger@truman.edu In-Reply-To: <873bu99ipx.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> (Jay Belanger's message of "Sat, 02 Apr 2005 11:44:26 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35507 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35507 Jay Belanger writes: > The Calc manual has a copy of version 1 of the GPL. > This should be changed to v.2, but this is an invariant section of the > manual. This may be a silly question, but how do I get permission to > change it? The copyright of calc including its manual has been assigned to the FSF, and you are acting as the maintainer of the FSF, like with any other contribution to calc. For a change of that scope, it is definitely a good idea to ask the FSF whether your change is in line with what the FSF wants from you as the maintainer of that part. It appears to me that: a) the copyright notices in calc should be put in line with those in the rest of Emacs, namely GPL v2 or later. b) the license of the calc manual should be put in line with the rest of Emacs, which would be the GFDL in its current version. You should ask Richard which passages should in the course of that be considered invariant. It would probably be convenient of you proposed a set and let it be rogered (or vetoed). So basically the thing to do is to make a more or less detailed list of what changes you think appropriate, and ask Richard whether they are ok with him. No additional paperwork should be necessary apart from what has already been passed around. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum