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: Licensing of NEWS files? Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:58:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87si5cunrt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444924889 29708 80.91.229.3 (15 Oct 2015 16:01:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:01:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 15 18:01:22 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 1Zmky1-00010K-GJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:01:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zmky0-0004ws-To for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmkvI-0000zJ-TP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:58:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmkvI-0005xB-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:58:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51893) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmkvH-0005wz-JW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:58:31 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37479 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmkvH-0006rj-2t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:58:31 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6A4E8DF4F5; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:58:30 +0200 (CEST) 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:191652 Archived-At: Our various NEWS files, according to the license statement at the end, are distributed under the GPL. That seems sort of overkill. At least the older files are arguably not an integral part of the version of Emacs they are distributed with, and it seems like we are doing nobody including ourselves a favor by keeping people from quoting from the NEWS file in some article they are doing about a new release. 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. Granted, that did not annoy me as much for licensing reasons as it did for making it unable to get a rough estimate when the various major versions of Emacs had been released. -- David Kastrup