Re: First draft of the Emacs website

[Richard Stallman]

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Pages whose purpose is educational should carry free licenses.
Pages that state our point of view, our message, should carry
licenses that do not permit modification.

  > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html specifically recommends
  > against this license.

That's in the section on licenses for documentation.  I will clarify
the text there to make it clear the non-recommendation is about
documentation only.  Thanks for showing me this could be
misunderstood.

  >  It's not clear why website text (or layout, etc)
  > is so different from documentation as to require different principles.

Some of the pages might be documentation -- if so, they should
be under a free license.  We should use the GFDL for compatibility
with the Emacs manuals.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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