From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Licensing for source code contained in Emacs manuals Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:31:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542134604 5379 195.159.176.226 (13 Nov 2018 18:43:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:43:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Pittman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 13 19:43:20 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gMdeg-0001Ex-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:43:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55681 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMdgm-0007Dz-UJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:45:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36729) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMddd-0004sx-Po for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:42:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMdTU-0006IU-Kv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:31:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45751) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMdTG-00069a-My; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:31:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gMdTG-0004OH-Fa; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:31:30 -0500 X-Spook: Mena Clinton sweep tempest Cyber Command domestic X-Ran: TJ"bb:75o]}XfFK{/EEg=4e{fZ5PHWL80~HN7p4B'~wY),.O-i\1;FV_$8o?^Q`yUX/A4f X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Daniel Pittman's message of "Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:35:58 -0500") 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231118 Archived-At: (Dropped licensing@fsf. I would think just mailing rms would be more direct/efficient in this instance.) Daniel Pittman wrote: > My plan, then, is to give the FSF licensing folks a chance to speak up, and > then submit a patch that will adjust the licensing text used for the > various manuals appropriately. Maybe this is what you mean, but I would think you need explicit permission from the FSF for this kind of change rather than assuming silence is consent.