From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dual licensing of Org manual? Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:51:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87hanpwpm8.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355439075 24922 80.91.229.3 (13 Dec 2012 22:51:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sebastien Delafond , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 13 23:51:29 2012 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 1TjHcn-0000xg-5w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:51:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46281 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjHca-0008EY-8A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:51:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44730) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjHcW-0008E0-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:51:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjHcV-00039g-Pr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:51:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42697) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjHcV-00039c-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:51:11 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjHcT-0001SV-IL; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:51:09 -0500 X-Spook: ASIO mailbomb Area 51 NSA Nazi KGB New World Order X-Ran: $=H=;vCt^GwVY..)};7,P7Pm03{~jmc*;*{&9AIxDauumYZ5)ISSkU$nZh23DRPt&_mE)n X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87hanpwpm8.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien's message of "Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:31:43 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). 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:155535 Archived-At: Bastien wrote: > is it possible to get a formal authorization from the FSF to > dual-license the Org manual with both GNU GPLv3 and GNU FDL 1.3? > > Sebastien (cc) is maintaining the Org package for Debian and he > needs upstream version of Org manuals to be dual-licensed so that > Debian can distribute the Org manual under GNU GPL. Already asked and answered by rms http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-06/msg00990.html We do not need a solution because we don't have a problem. Debian has a problem, and the solution for that is to change their policy. Please do not make this change; it goes against our licensing policies. Irresistible force, immovable object, etc. > I see MH-E* is dual-licensing the manual so I expect this must > be somehow accepted. True this is anomalous. rms has previously commented on this too http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-06/msg00989.html Later Bill Wohler reminded rms off-list that it had previously been agreed (in some previous private discussion IIUC) for mh-e that dual licensing was ok, so it stands.