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* Function for quoting Emacs manual sections?
@ 2010-12-19  8:33 David Kastrup
  2010-12-19  9:17 ` PJ Weisberg
  2010-12-19 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: David Kastrup @ 2010-12-19  8:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel


Hi,

in the past, when giving people advice about Emacs on Emacs-related
mailing lists, I have frequently quoted passages of the Emacs manual (in
formatted form).  I have just now bothered to check its license again,
and clearly I violated pretty much all provisions of the GFDL while
doing so.

Since giving advice in mail or Usenet groups is a frequent occurence,
could we have a ready-built function that inserts all relevant copyright
notices, lists of invariant sections and other things required by the
GFDL around quotes of manual text?

It would be counterproductive if one could not both easily and legally
quote manual sections to people asking for advice.

Thanks

-- 
David Kastrup




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2010-12-19  8:33 Function for quoting Emacs manual sections? David Kastrup
2010-12-19  9:17 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-12-19 10:08   ` David Kastrup
2010-12-19 22:50     ` Richard Stallman
2010-12-19 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-19 13:27   ` David Kastrup
2010-12-19 14:04     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-19 16:56       ` David Kastrup
2010-12-19 20:58         ` Yoni Rabkin
2010-12-20  2:55         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-20  9:28           ` David Kastrup
2010-12-20 18:01             ` Andy Wingo
2010-12-20 14:38         ` Richard Stallman
2010-12-20 14:52           ` David Kastrup
2010-12-19 15:04     ` Eli Zaretskii

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