From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Random832 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: License of the Emacs website (was: Re: First draft of the Emacs website) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 05:42:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87io4lem98.fsf@petton.fr> <0F2DCC88-583C-43D3-8CE7-7F8A324F10ED@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449253241 12866 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2015 18:20:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 18:20:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-tangents@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 19:20:27 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1a4uy1-00073u-C8 for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:20:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42336 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uy0-0005N3-UT for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 13:20:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43687) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uxx-0005Mc-Vb for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 13:20:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uxu-00011z-QW for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 13:20:21 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34055) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uxu-00011H-K4 for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 13:20:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a4uxg-0006Uw-Na for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([68.39.146.59]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from random832 by c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:20:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.3-7 (Linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.tangents:42 Archived-At: On 2015-12-04, Chad Brown wrote: > Works that express someone's opinion—memoirs, editorials, and > so on—serve a fundamentally different purpose than works for > practical use like software and documentation. I don't see how, in general, a software project website fits into these categories. Even if it did, I think concerns of misrepresentation (which I assume are the issue here) should be dealt with by non-copyright mechanisms. Or at most require a disclaimer. > This seems like a discussion for someplace other than the emacs-devel > list, so I tried (perhaps crudely?) to redirect it to emacs-tangents. I hadn't realized Gmane had it yet.