Re: Licensing for source code contained in Emacs manuals

[Paul Eggert]

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Would it be appropriate to extend the documentation to explicitly permit
> reuse of the sample code in the Emacs flymake manual, or all Emacs manuals,
> under the same license as Emacs itself?  That is, sample code could be used
> under the GFDL*or*  the GPLv3 (at this time).

I'm sure that could be fine. Alternatively, and without needing any special 
rules about this, the distribution could contain a separate copy of the code in 
question in standard source-code form, licensed under the GPL. The documentation 
could explain that the code itself is also available outside the documentation 
and that it is GPLed there. As a user, I'd prefer that to cutting and pasting 
out of the documentation.