Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs (was: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness)

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Nov 06 2008, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> 
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 04 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>>
>>> For Gnus specifically, we could use it to automatically pull the
>>> Gnus+GMail pages from the EmacsWiki into the manual periodically.

Beside the copyright issue, I would object to automatic inclusion
because the quality and correctness of EmacsWiki pages isn't always
sufficient.

>> As we don't have copyright assignments for the content on EmacsWiki,
>> we cannot do this.  Does EmacsWiki have a reliable history mechanism
>> that allows to find out who has done a change?
>
> 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.

Bye, Reiner.
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