From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Licensing of NEWS files? Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:31:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83h9ls8566.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87si5cunrt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444926774 29409 80.91.229.3 (15 Oct 2015 16:32:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 15 18:32:43 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmlSM-0008CW-Mu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:32:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48592 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmlSG-0006iN-H7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:32:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmlR1-0006eO-If for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:31:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmlR0-0002sq-Jk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:31:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:45560) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmlQw-0002rJ-L2; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:31:14 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NW900I00SJPYF00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:31:13 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NW900ITYSK0MPB0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:31:13 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87si5cunrt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191658 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > 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.