From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright question Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:28:02 +0300 Message-ID: References: <82BFC2C8-9E38-491F-863D-1C420AB13882@uva.nl> <20080613095819.GB2618@muc.de> <20080614120324.GA4589@muc.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213471839 6141 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2008 19:30:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dominik@uva.nl, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 14 21:31:21 2008 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 1K7bT4-0003qT-Kj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:31:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7bSG-0004ku-DZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7bRw-0004NX-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7bRv-0004LZ-1N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33860 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7bRu-0004L3-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]:58944) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K7bRp-0000TJ-Ca; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:30:02 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.242.237]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K2G006AKXFUSQA1@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:43:07 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20080614120324.GA4589@muc.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:99207 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:03:25 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > 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.