Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06 2008, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> 
>> wrote:
>>>>> As we don't have copyright assignments for the content on EmacsWiki,
>>>>> we cannot do this.  [...]
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure that is important since if something on EmacsWiki is to
>>>> be included in Emacs it needs to be rewritten to fit into Emacs
>>>> manual.
>>>
>>> AFAIK, that doesn't matter.
>>
>> What do you mean?
>
> In general[1], in order to include non-trivial content[2] in Emacs,
> the author has to assign the copyright to the FSF.  If we don't have
> an assignment, we cannot include it.
>
> I don't know what kind of rewriting your thinking about.  If it's only
> adding texinfo markup and minor changes, then I think we still need an
> assignment from the original author.[3]

Thanks, I see.

My idea was to let someone who have signed FSF papers for contributing
to Emacs do the rewriting. I meant a complete rewrite using the ideas
from the EmacsWiki pages, but not directly the content itself.