From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What would an "An Official" GNU Emacs Book look like? Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 18:03:30 +0200 Message-ID: <876181agc6.fsf@mbork.pl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431187441 8509 80.91.229.3 (9 May 2015 16:04:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 16:04:01 +0000 (UTC) To: chad , vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 18:03:51 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 1Yr7EF-0008K6-5x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 18:03:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59714 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yr7ED-00050L-Fm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 12:03:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yr7EA-00050E-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 12:03:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yr7E7-0002En-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 12:03:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:33713) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yr7E7-0002Ef-5R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 12:03:43 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD264F6080; Sat, 9 May 2015 18:03:40 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lt-0nuscOY9N; Sat, 9 May 2015 18:03:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [109.232.24.146]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B4E74F607E; Sat, 9 May 2015 18:03:36 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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:186370 Archived-At: On 2015-05-09, at 16:16, Richard Stallman wrote: > Please do not cite an amazon.com page as a reference for a book. It is quite astonishing (for me) to agree with RMS, but I second that. (Even though I /do/ buy at Amazon and have a Kindle.;-)) > Learning GNU Emacs and Writing GNU Emacs Extensions are not ours; > I would guess that they are nonfree, but I don't know. Can you check > what licenses their sources carry? If they are free, we could recommend > them (but not via amazon.com). How about recommending a dead-tree version? Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University