Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Introduccion a Emacs Lisp and FDL

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:56:19PM -0500, Nicodemo Alvaro wrote:
> The Introduccion a Emacs Lisp project adds translations to the Emacs
> Lisp Intro project, so I believe it must follow Section 4 Modifications
> of the GNU FDL. I laid out how the project complies in the same way
> section 4 mentions it. 
> 
> The document seems to have both the original English text with a
> Spanish translation after it.

> C. I don't think they are publishing, so is it okay to leave the
> original publisher? 

The publisher is defined very broadly:

  The "publisher" means any person or entity that distributes copies
  of the Document to the public.

So I think they should be listed instead.

> F. The original FDL notice is included, but not immediately after the
> copyright notice. I don't understand why it asks you to make a license
> notice for the modifications.

I guess it replaces the previous license notices.

> I. There is no exact section titled History in either documents. 

They need to create one with the previous publishing info I think.

-- 
Sylvain