From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bad choice of license in BzrForEmacsDevs Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:30:27 -0600 Message-ID: <87d4399auk.fsf@red-bean.com> References: Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258947051 18701 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2009 03:30:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:30:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 23 04:30:44 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NCPdT-0006gg-PQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:30:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36274 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCPdS-0003D8-Qc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:30:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCPdN-0003B2-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:30:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCPdI-000369-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:30:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40668 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCPdI-000363-JW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:30:32 -0500 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.206.141]:50046) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NCPdG-0007jj-Jv; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:30:30 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57040 helo=kfogel-work ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NCPdE-0006Zf-Q9; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:30:29 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:29:13 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117551 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs > allows GPL version 2, but not the current version. That's not quite true. The license blurb at the bottom of the page says: 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." So that allows the GPLv3, as well as many other licenses. (Note also that the words "similar licenses" at the end link to a very short and simple share-alike type of license.) > This is not a good thing. Would the author(s) please > change it to allow future versions of the GNU GPL as well? > The documentation we recommend to Emacs developers has to > set a good example for licensing as well as have useful > information. I wrote most of that page, and would be happy to change "2" to "3" in the blurb, but don't see how to do so. It appears to be an administrative function of the EmacsWiki site, and I'm not sure how to change it, nor whether it can be changed on a per-page basis. > Are there other pages on emacswiki.org which have this problem? All of them, presumably (though I'm not sure it's a problem). -Karl