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Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness
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tyler |
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Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness |
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Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:23:47 -0400 |
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Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com> writes:
> tyler> This being the case, what's to stop anyone from lifting content
> tyler> for inclusion in other documents with compatible licenses?
>
> As far as emacs code is concerned, the FSF wants the code to be under
> a free licence, but it also wants to hold the copyright. Why ? Because
> the FSF makes new licences on a constant basis, ans only the copyright
> owner is allowed to change the licence.
>
Given that the Emacs Wiki expressly allows that the recipient
"may choose to receive this work under any other license that grants
the right to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute the work, as long as
that license imposes the restriction that derivative works have to
grant the same rights and impose the same restriction"
The FSF would have to come up with a new license that is a drastic
departure from conventional copyleft to violate this condition. Still,
I'm beyond the limit of my legal understanding, so that's probably a
good time to stop.
Cheers,
Tyler
--
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
--Wernher von Braun
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, (continued)
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, Reiner Steib, 2008/11/06
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, Lennart Borgman, 2008/11/06
- Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs (was: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness), Reiner Steib, 2008/11/06
- Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs (was: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness), Lennart Borgman, 2008/11/06
- Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs, Reiner Steib, 2008/11/06
- Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs, Lennart Borgman, 2008/11/06
- Message not available
- Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs, Rupert Swarbrick, 2008/11/08
- Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/11/07
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, tyler, 2008/11/06
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, Paul R, 2008/11/07
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness,
tyler <=
Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/11/06
Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/11/07