From: Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What would an "An Official" GNU Emacs Book look like?
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 22:38:00 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <554CED70.1080705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvegmrqfl6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Friday 08 May 2015 08:33 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> 1. What would an "An Official" GNU Emacs Book look like?
>
> It would be distributed under the GFDL, like all the other official
> Emacs books (the elisp intro, the emacs manual, and the elisp manual).
1. Should contributors to this Book do a copyright assignment?
2. (For the sake of argument) How about using contributions from
Emacswiki.
The Emacswiki footer reads thus:
| This work is licensed to you under version 2 of the GNU General
| Public License. Alternatively, you may choose to receive this
| work under any other license that grants the right to use, copy,
| modify, and/or distribute the work, as long as that license
| imposes the restriction that derivative works have to grant the
| same rights and impose the same restriction. For example, you may
| choose to receive this work under the GNU Free Documentation
| License, the CreativeCommons ShareAlike License, the XEmacs
| manual license, or similar licenses.
>> 2. What (do maintainers think) is very necessary to
>> kickstart/bootstrap an auxiliary GNU project in this direction?
>
> A clear idea of what it should aim to do.
I welcome inputs. I don't have any idea (at this point in time).
> I think there is clearly room for an "Emacs book" (e.g. something
> less intimidating/referency than the Emacs manual, and which could
> cover packages not included in Emacs).
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Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-08 5:52 What would an "An Official" GNU Emacs Book look like? Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-08 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-08 15:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-08 17:08 ` Vaidheeswaran C [this message]
2015-05-08 22:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-09 9:29 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-09 10:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-10 6:25 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-10 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-10 15:26 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-17 15:54 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-17 17:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-17 21:55 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-17 23:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-18 2:37 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-18 2:21 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-18 2:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-18 2:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-05-18 3:00 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-18 4:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-05-18 4:41 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-18 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-18 18:11 ` Timur Aydin
2015-05-20 5:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-05-18 19:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-05-18 20:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-19 11:05 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-19 23:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-20 13:33 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-20 13:33 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-21 3:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-05-21 4:18 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-21 11:33 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-21 18:53 ` chad
2015-05-22 21:31 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-24 21:20 ` chad
2015-05-24 22:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-25 15:29 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-25 18:05 ` chad
2015-05-26 11:54 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-26 18:02 ` chad
2015-05-27 14:25 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-28 5:15 ` chad
2015-05-28 12:31 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-28 17:47 ` chad
2015-05-30 2:44 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-05-30 20:16 ` chad
2015-05-31 14:04 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-21 19:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-05-21 11:33 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-21 19:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-05-22 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-23 3:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-05-21 23:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-30 4:42 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-30 12:18 ` Rasmus
2015-05-19 6:12 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-20 5:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-05-18 6:04 ` David Engster
2015-05-18 16:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-18 18:54 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-19 4:34 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-18 16:53 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-05-18 16:55 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-05-19 5:12 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-05-08 22:12 ` chad
2015-05-09 14:16 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-09 16:03 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-05-10 15:27 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-18 20:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-05-18 21:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-19 1:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-19 11:05 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-19 18:56 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-05-19 19:44 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-19 20:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-05-19 20:33 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-05-20 13:31 ` Richard Stallman
2015-05-08 18:46 ` Richard Stallman
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