From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: First draft of the Emacs website Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:19:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87io4lem98.fsf@petton.fr> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449274783 22115 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2015 00:19:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 00:19:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Random832 Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 05 01:19:32 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 1a50ZV-0004u7-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 01:19:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44015 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a50ZU-0003C9-76 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:19:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59673) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a50ZQ-0003Bs-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:19:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a50ZP-0001gN-Uo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:19:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:32812) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a50ZN-0001fU-8V; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:19:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a50ZM-0001Qf-JE; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:19:20 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Random832 on Fri, 4 Dec 2015 03:57:03 +0000 (UTC)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:195910 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Pages whose purpose is educational should carry free licenses. Pages that state our point of view, our message, should carry licenses that do not permit modification. > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html specifically recommends > against this license. That's in the section on licenses for documentation. I will clarify the text there to make it clear the non-recommendation is about documentation only. Thanks for showing me this could be misunderstood. > It's not clear why website text (or layout, etc) > is so different from documentation as to require different principles. Some of the pages might be documentation -- if so, they should be under a free license. We should use the GFDL for compatibility with the Emacs manuals. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.