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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Licensing of NEWS files?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:31:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h9ls8566.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87si5cunrt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:58:30 +0200
> 
> 
> Our various NEWS files, according to the license statement at the end,
> are distributed under the GPL.  That seems sort of overkill.

I'm not sure I agree.  Our NEWS includes non-trivial documentation.

> What actually annoyed me is that the various NEWS files are all also
> marked (c) 2015 in spite of not being really a part of the current
> Emacs.

What do you mean by "not part of the current Emacs"?  All the NEWS
files are included in a release tarball.

We always mark all files each year.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-15 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-15 15:58 Licensing of NEWS files? David Kastrup
2015-10-15 16:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-15 16:19   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-10-15 16:32     ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-16  1:16       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-10-15 16:34     ` David Kastrup
2015-10-15 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-10-15 16:43   ` David Kastrup
2015-10-15 22:05 ` Paul Eggert
2015-10-15 23:00   ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-02-01  0:56     ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-01  3:16       ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-10-16  8:58   ` Eli Zaretskii

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