From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: licenses for manual pages Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:06:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <27fxkufewu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229080073 26612 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2008 11:07:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:07:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 12:08:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LB5t7-0008Vb-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:08:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35208 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LB5rw-0002Gp-5D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:07:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LB5rr-0002Gk-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:07:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LB5rr-0002GY-1H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:07:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35634 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LB5rq-0002GV-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:07:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:37115) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LB5rq-0004nl-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:07:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LB5rD-0006p7-Rt; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:06:55 -0500 In-reply-to: <27fxkufewu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:52:33 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106835 Archived-At: etags.1 has a simple "preserve permissions" notice. emacs.1 has the same notice as etags.1, but contains the GPL boilerplate as a comment at the start, which is confusing, even if it may be technically correct to note that Emacs as a whole is GPL'd. emacs.1 is certainly bad. We could stick with what etags.1 does; it is ok. Or we could change them to the GFDL, or say "you can also use this under the GFDL."