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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Function for quoting Emacs manual sections?
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:56:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3oxog5r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvipyprha7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> Maybe I'm missing something, but I see no part in GFDL that speaks
>>> specifically about such email quotations.
>
> Isn't that covered by the copyright law already?

Sure.  Namely it is forbidden by default.  You can't quote any creative
content that would suffice for not needing to get access the original.
Because then you are providing value only the copyright holder is
permitted to provide.

-- 
David Kastrup




  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-19 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-19  8:33 Function for quoting Emacs manual sections? David Kastrup
2010-12-19  9:17 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-12-19 10:08   ` David Kastrup
2010-12-19 22:50     ` Richard Stallman
2010-12-19 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-19 13:27   ` David Kastrup
2010-12-19 14:04     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-19 16:56       ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-12-19 20:58         ` Yoni Rabkin
2010-12-20  2:55         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-20  9:28           ` David Kastrup
2010-12-20 18:01             ` Andy Wingo
2010-12-20 14:38         ` Richard Stallman
2010-12-20 14:52           ` David Kastrup
2010-12-19 15:04     ` Eli Zaretskii

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