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Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual
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Brian Palmer |
Subject: |
Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Dec 2004 09:56:34 -0700 |
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 09:57:56 +0100, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Karl Fogel <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> >> I don't see any benefit from using the GFDL over the GPL that would justify
> >> the downside of preventing the XEmacs people from using our documentation.
> >> [ Unless we consider that as an upside, but I really don't see any good
> >> reason why we should be so antagonizing. ] Similarly, the licensing
> >> problems
> >> it can cause when extracting docs and doc-skeletons out of code
> >> is worrisome.
> >
> > I agree.
> >
> > It is bad that our docs are license-incompatible with XEmacs's GPL'd
> > docs.
>
> It's bad for the XEmacs developers and other Emacs forks, irrelevant
> for us, since only FSF copyright assigned contributions are accepted
> into Emacs and its manual, anyway, and the copyright holder is free to
Not true, e.g., lao.el is Copyright (C) 1997 Electrotechnical
Laboratory, JAPAN. I'm also going to say it's a bad thing for
everybody, in second order effects if not primary. The more
cooperation that exists between the many emacs forks out
there, the more cooperation that can be built on. Emacs profits
from that cooperation, too.
The question that comes , then, is this obstacle to cooperation
so very valuable to emacs? What is the net benefit of having the
emacs manual only available under the GFDL?
> move stuff between licences within the scope of the assignment
> contracts.
>
> > It is also confusing how the GFDL interacts with extracted docs from
> > non-GFDL code, as you point out.
>
> Again, this is not a problem for Emacs development itself (the
> copyright all being by the FSF), but for every fork of it.
And for every elisp application built on emacs. There are any number of
elisp applications out there which will involve the authors looking
through the emacs manual for reference. The GFDL status of the
manual has clear implications on their ability to copy info out for
docstrings or basing any functions on examples given in the
manual.
- Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Ben Wing, 2004/12/09
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/10
- RE: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Ben Wing, 2004/12/10
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Alan Mackenzie, 2004/12/11
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Stefan Monnier, 2004/12/11
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Karl Fogel, 2004/12/11
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, David Kastrup, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual,
Brian Palmer <=
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Matthew Mundell, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, David Kastrup, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/12/11
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Karl Fogel, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, David Kastrup, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Florian Weimer, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, David Kastrup, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Florian Weimer, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/12/12