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Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs
From: |
Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:14:31 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
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]
Bye, Reiner.
Footnotes:
[1] there might be some exceptions
[2] code or documentation
[3] IANAL; I don't speak for the FSF; If you want to know for sure ask
the FSF copyright clerk or on emacs-devel.
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