From: Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>
To: tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:32:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxm4uh2q.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abccjvvn.fsf@blackbart.sedgenet> (tyler's message of "Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:08:12 -0400")
tyler> This being the case, what's to stop anyone from lifting content
tyler> for inclusion in other documents with compatible licenses?
As far as emacs code is concerned, the FSF wants the code to be under
a free licence, but it also wants to hold the copyright. Why ? Because
the FSF makes new licences on a constant basis, ans only the copyright
owner is allowed to change the licence.
tyler> If such activity actually requires individual contributors
tyler> actively assigning copyright, then the footer is wrong and needs
tyler> to be corrected.
No, the footer is right, GPLV2 is all about distribution permissions,
not about copyright holding, which is the real problem I suspect.
But I'm not sure, anybody to confirm that the FSF applies the same
policy for documentation ?
--
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-07 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 10:54 Emacs Wiki Revision History Volkan YAZICI
2008-10-20 12:30 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-20 15:03 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-20 17:58 ` Xah
2008-10-21 8:04 ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-21 12:04 ` ack
[not found] ` <mailman.1709.1224598815.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-21 18:55 ` Xah
2008-10-22 9:26 ` Paul R
2008-10-22 22:45 ` Bastien
2008-10-23 8:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.1889.1224757773.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-23 11:10 ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-23 8:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.1856.1224715571.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-23 11:07 ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-23 14:35 ` Bastien
[not found] ` <mailman.1911.1224772552.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-23 22:06 ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-23 22:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-24 2:54 ` Bastien
[not found] ` <mailman.1968.1224816864.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-24 10:15 ` Alex Schroeder
[not found] ` <mailman.1777.1224667634.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-23 11:00 ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-23 20:43 ` Xah
2008-10-23 22:47 ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-24 8:31 ` Emacs, oldsters, newbiness (was: Emacs Wiki Revision History) Paul R
2008-11-06 20:22 ` Emacs, oldsters, newbiness Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.3016.1226004497.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-07 14:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <mailman.1985.1224837085.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-24 10:14 ` Emacs, oldsters, newbiness (was: Emacs Wiki Revision History) Alex Schroeder
2008-10-24 11:15 ` Emacs, oldsters, newbiness Paul R
2008-10-24 18:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-26 21:40 ` Paul R
2008-10-26 21:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-30 23:25 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-10-30 23:25 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-11-04 18:05 ` Alex
[not found] ` <mailman.2882.1225821941.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-04 21:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-11-06 8:11 ` Reiner Steib
2008-11-06 8:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-06 20:29 ` Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs (was: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness) Reiner Steib
2008-11-06 21:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-06 22:14 ` Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs Reiner Steib
2008-11-06 23:11 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.3026.1226017071.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-08 19:00 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-11-07 14:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-11-06 23:08 ` Emacs, oldsters, newbiness tyler
2008-11-07 7:32 ` Paul R [this message]
2008-11-07 13:23 ` tyler
[not found] ` <mailman.1662.1224576628.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-21 18:34 ` Emacs Wiki Revision History Xah
2008-10-21 19:01 ` Xah
2008-10-23 11:05 ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-22 0:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.1578.1224505841.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-23 14:13 ` Alex Schroeder
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