Re: Licensing of NEWS files?

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> On 2015-10-15, at 18:13, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>> On 10/15/2015 06:58 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>> I don't disagree, but:
>>
>>> quoting from the NEWS
>>> file in some article they are doing about a new release.
>>
>> Isn't is Fair Use?
>
> Isn't Fair Use limited to US law?

Putting that aside: do we want it to be a problem to put up a reasonably
_complete_ NEWS file without appropriate license notices, modification
notices (the rest of Emacs is missing) and copy of GPL license?

Similarly to how we declare code examples in our Texinfo manuals as
"Public Domain" free for any use, I think that it would make sense to
similarly do so with the NEWS files.  The rationale most likely might be
that people cannot just rip them out without notice when distributing
Emacs, but the GPL pretty much allows that anyway when you leave an
appropriate notice of having done that.

Richard?  Any word on this?

-- 
David Kastrup