From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GFDL
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:18:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1B9EEC55-EB84-480D-8EEE-8CFAB14D6264@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r4h0h2y8.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca>
On 21 mei 2013, at 15:34, François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org>
> writes:
>
>> FMI, why is GNU GPL not applicable to the manual?
>
> While I would have long to say, here, I rather censor myself, mostly.
>
> I sometimes happen to think that the GDFL happened not so long after
> Richard Stallman and I had a harsh and long dispute about the GNU tar
> manual. In short, I wanted to publish it, Richard wanted that I refrain
> from doing so: he expected the manual to be a source of FSF revenue.
> The GDFL wording opens the door to Richard's restrictions,
I am curious, what passage does make such restrictions
possible, and which kinds of restrictions?
- Carsten
> while the
> GPL, which I used, is more in the spirit of the remainder of the FSF.
>
> GNU tar has it own set of technical difficulties, and I hope I've been
> able to put it back on track so it became maintainable again. But in
> many non-technical ways, GNU tar has been an administrative nightmare.
>
> François
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-21 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-09 14:30 GFDL Carsten Dominik
2013-03-09 15:02 ` GFDL Achim Gratz
2013-03-09 15:11 ` GFDL Carsten Dominik
2013-03-09 15:25 ` GFDL Achim Gratz
2013-03-09 16:13 ` GFDL Carsten Dominik
2013-03-10 10:07 ` GFDL Bastien
2013-03-10 12:31 ` GFDL Achim Gratz
2013-03-10 14:06 ` GFDL Bastien
2013-03-10 0:43 ` GFDL Alan L Tyree
2013-03-19 6:44 ` GFDL Carsten Dominik
2013-03-19 15:42 ` GFDL Bastien
2013-03-19 19:06 ` GFDL Marcin Borkowski
2013-03-19 21:35 ` GFDL Bastien
2013-03-20 2:56 ` GFDL Marcin Borkowski
2013-03-20 6:01 ` GFDL Marcin Borkowski
2013-03-20 14:00 ` GFDL Bastien
2013-03-20 15:25 ` GFDL Marcin Borkowski
2013-03-20 19:55 ` GFDL Marcin Borkowski
2013-04-06 1:05 ` GFDL Bastien
2013-05-21 1:02 ` GFDL Ben Finney
2013-05-21 10:27 ` GFDL Bastien
2013-05-21 12:56 ` GFDL Sebastien Vauban
2013-05-21 13:01 ` GFDL Bastien
2013-05-26 3:35 ` GFDL Ben Finney
2013-05-27 7:12 ` GFDL Bastien
2013-06-04 9:35 ` GFDL Ben Finney
2013-05-21 13:34 ` GFDL François Pinard
2013-05-21 14:18 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2013-05-21 15:03 ` GFDL François Pinard
2013-05-22 4:43 ` GFDL Carsten Dominik
2013-05-21 16:12 ` [OT] Contributors to org.texi (was: GFDL) Memnon Anon
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