From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Licensing of NEWS files? Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:43:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87fv1culpa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87si5cunrt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83h9ls8566.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444927504 9004 80.91.229.3 (15 Oct 2015 16:45:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 15 18:44:51 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 1Zmldw-000423-18 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:44:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48651 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zmldv-000389-8L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:44:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47355) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmlcZ-0002tc-Ex for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:43:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmlcY-0007CE-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:43:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52885) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmlcY-0007CA-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:43:14 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38471 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmlcX-0004fj-No; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:43:14 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0F610DF4F5; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:43:13 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <83h9ls8566.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:31:13 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:191662 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. So? >> 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. Which is very much the definition of "mere aggregation". Apart from the NEWS itself (which is accessible with C-h N), the files are not integrated with any part of Emacs code. They are just sitting there. > We always mark all files each year. Obviously. But those are historic files separate from the current version of Emacs. The content industry would love to remark copyrights for anything it keeps in circulation as an unchanged addition to something new. It would be quite cheaper than bribing politicians for retroactive copyright extensions every few decades. -- David Kastrup