From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Function for quoting Emacs manual sections? Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:55:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877hf6p3fo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87y67lopu6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87d3oxog5r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292813763 594 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2010 02:56:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:56:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 20 03:55:59 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUVul-0003vF-Hu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:55:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44376 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUVul-0000AA-4o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:55:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44012 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUVuh-0000A0-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:55:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUVug-0005i2-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:55:51 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:38890 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUVue-0005hi-Iz; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:55:48 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEABZUDk1Ld/KP/2dsb2JhbACkLnS8AYVKBIRljhI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,199,1291611600"; d="scan'208";a="85904840" Original-Received: from 75-119-242-143.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([75.119.242.143]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 19 Dec 2010 21:55:48 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BA91366112; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:55:47 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87d3oxog5r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:56:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:133824 Archived-At: >>>> Maybe I'm missing something, but I see no part in GFDL that speaks >>>> specifically about such email quotations. >> Isn't that covered by the copyright law already? > Sure. Namely it is forbidden by default. You can't quote any creative > content that would suffice for not needing to get access the original. > Because then you are providing value only the copyright holder is > permitted to provide. Hmm... that's not my understanding of the "reasonable quoting" exceptions, tho of course these vary from country to country. Stefan