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: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:25:14 +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 1103034378 19709 80.91.229.6 (14 Dec 2004 14:26:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 14 15:26:11 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 1CeDcw-0000TX-00 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:26:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CeDn5-0004sD-Of for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:36:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CeDmu-0004rm-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:36:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CeDmt-0004rF-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:36:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CeDmt-0004r7-CQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:36:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CeDcL-0001is-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:25:33 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CeDY0-0003FB-F1; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:21:09 -0500 Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:09:32 +0000 (UTC)") 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:31116 gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:17461 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31116 "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > ... with the electronic forms of the manuals, the GPL appears more > appropriate to me. > > What specifically of the current form of the GFDL, as it applies > electronically, do you not like? I might be unable to bring across my point. My issue is not with the GFDL per se. My issue is that it is not GPL-compatible, yet we use it for something that forms an integrated and tightly coupled part of Emacs and evolves with it. And that defeats the "Public" in GPL since it requires the copyright holder for normal maintenance work of derived versions. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum