From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:14:31 +0100 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: <87k5bgo62g.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <251d6b72-b760-411b-8c35-83a7788e2491@u75g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <87tzb26y7p.fsf@gmail.com> <87hc6z6nmp.fsf@gmail.com> <200810302325.m9UNP7JI012589@zogzog.maillard.mobi> <86abcfrydf.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87iqr1qnni.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <877i7gpph5.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226011309 24092 80.91.229.12 (6 Nov 2008 22:41:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:41:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 06 23:42:51 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KyDYg-0005kH-Tf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:42:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59128 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KyDXZ-0005Rz-OQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:41:25 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1226009945 00 n963 JriBlJyO7KGxxX8 081106 22:19:05 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: ZdzKcrZegePUgkN6rGecu8-ziR4nVzaaZA7r59SujcBFz8qdq+svoi X-Face: 1; h7XMU[7l}$T@J.D}5z*w8Tg'}B5ArAWc8>2X~otB; kOjKs8X%|hTC#dG:%Vpx")x7S/`v :VXU#fZW$X$zdhEU.RfVQ@<-m9IuN{Hm"fW{,5]6kR'M*vEs+{5Cj!L(JTRzA$(},?5J=sm; %Od List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59527 Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 06 2008, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Reiner Steib 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/