Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Nov 06 2008, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
>>>> As we don't have copyright assignments for the content on EmacsWiki,
>>>> we cannot do this.  [...]
>>>
>>> I am not sure that is important since if something on EmacsWiki is to
>>> be included in Emacs it needs to be rewritten to fit into Emacs
>>> manual.
>>
>> AFAIK, that doesn't matter.
>
> What do you mean?

In general[1], in order to include non-trivial content[2] in Emacs,
the author has to assign the copyright to the FSF.  If we don't have
an assignment, we cannot include it.

I don't know what kind of rewriting your thinking about.  If it's only
adding texinfo markup and minor changes, then I think we still need an
assignment from the original author.[3]

Bye, Reiner.

Footnotes: 
[1]  there might be some exceptions

[2]  code or documentation

[3]  IANAL; I don't speak for the FSF; If you want to know for sure ask
     the FSF copyright clerk or on emacs-devel.

-- 
       ,,,
      (o o)
---ooO-(_)-Ooo---  |  PGP key available  |  http://rsteib.home.pages.de/