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: etags licence? Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:53:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18128.42217.337257.871910@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87r6lq9bm0.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188179615 2959 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2007 01:53:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Mueller , emacs@gentoo.org, Francesco Potorti , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 27 03:53:31 2007 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 4.50) id 1IPTnF-0002FQ-FV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:53:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPTnE-0007J6-Ge for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPTn9-0007Hs-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:53:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPTn7-0007GC-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:53:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPTn7-0007G9-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:53:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IPTn7-0000Ac-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:53:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IPTn2-0000XI-Iu; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:53:16 -0400 X-Spook: data haven assassination plutonium Peking Cohiba Becker X-Ran: JVXn_yz`2nNt\b@*.H3U~*s>pO3$6d]APP"VU{KQG\DIF2|n=1F?HGU0xWMw/w[Y(7QKpl X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:16:29 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:77246 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: >> string "GPL-3 FDL-1.2 BSD" means that all of the contents of the package >> are available under at least one of those licenses. > > Some comments: [...] Following up to myself... It depends what that string is supposed to mean. If it does mean: "every file in this package is under one or more of these licenses", then it isn't even true as it stands, thanks to the other exceptions I mentioned. If it is just supposed to be a "summary" of the overall license for the "Emacs package", then I don't think there is any problem just saying that Emacs's code is under GPLv3, and the documentation is under GFDLv1.2. The copyright and license information for every file in Emacs is clearly stated in the file itself or a README (AFAIK, please report any exceptions!) so the fine detail is all there if people want that level of information.