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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
> 

  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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