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Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual
From: |
Florian Weimer |
Subject: |
Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:39:28 +0100 |
* David Kastrup:
> d) is it a good idea to change a large body of free software (like the
> GNU Emacs manual) to a different licence when it is well-known that
> substantial forks exist for which no licence change is possible, not
> least of all because the fork does not have the permission of the FSF
> to change the licence for old derived material to the GFDL, even in
> the case (which is not the current case) that they'd wanted to do it?
d) doesn't apply to the situation which sparked this discussion
because the Emacs manual hasn't been released under the GPL. If the
XEmacs manual is GPLed, it's not a fork of the Emacs manual, because
the Emacs manual licensing terms have been GPL-incompatible since at
least 1992, probably even longer.
The widely held belief that the GFDL relicensing of the Emacs manual
introduced the GPL incompatibility (and invariant sections) is wrong.
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, (continued)
- 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 <=
- 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
- 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, 2004/12/12
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Andy Piper, 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, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/12/13
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/12/13