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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: dominik@uva.nl, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Copyright question
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:28:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk5grlsu5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080614120324.GA4589@muc.de>

> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:03:25 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> Cc: dominik@uva.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Nearly everybody agrees there are problems with the current GFDL.

They all have simple solutions.

> For example, in the CC Mode manual, there is a page "Sample .emacs
> file".  If anyone were to copy this page into her .emacs and modify
> it (which is the whole idea), she would then have to license her
> .emacs under the GFDL before passing it on.

This isn't true.

Please, let's not have yet another is-GFDL-good-or-bad-and-how-to-
replace-it-with-GPL discussion.  This horse is already dead, so let's
not beat it to death again.  I find it hard to believe there are many
people here who are interested; those who are, can easily find past
discussions and save us from yet another useless thread.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-14 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-12 14:43 Copyright question Carsten Dominik
2008-06-12 19:30 ` David Hansen
2008-06-12 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13  8:19   ` Carsten Dominik
2008-06-13  9:59     ` David Kastrup
2008-06-13 22:48     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-14 13:15       ` Carsten Dominik
2008-06-14 20:11         ` Don Armstrong
2008-06-15 17:55         ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-12 19:40 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-12 20:47   ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-12 20:51     ` İsmail Dönmez
2008-06-12 23:31       ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-13  8:55         ` Andreas Röhler
2008-06-13  9:44           ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-13  9:36             ` Miles Bader
2008-06-13 13:35               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13 10:35             ` Andreas Röhler
2008-06-13 11:00               ` David Kastrup
2008-06-12 21:08     ` David Kastrup
2008-06-12 21:31 ` Don Armstrong
2008-06-12 23:03   ` Bastien
2008-06-13  3:13     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-06-13  4:06 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-13  7:58   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-13  9:51   ` David Kastrup
2008-06-13  9:58   ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-13 22:48     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-14 12:03       ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-14 19:16         ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-14 19:28         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-06-14 21:36         ` David Kastrup

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