[Why is this discussion on debian-emacsen?] Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:29:21 +0200, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >>> Then add "changed outside the GNU project" after it, and nobody need > >>> ever add another line in order to keep it true. > >> > >> "A GNU Manual" "changed outside the GNU project" -- it still claims > >> to be a GNU manual. > > > Then add "(at one time)" after it if that suits you better. > > (Of course, this puts the FSF in a rather odd situation, if they ever > want to take parts of "'A GNU Manual' '(at one time)'" and incorporate > it back into their own work. Then again, the FSF requires copyright > assignment for GNU software, which would allow them to do anything they > want with it, so I guess they don't care too much about this particular > case.) That's a recurrent theme with FSF licensing. When I pointed out that having a different license for Emacs add-on code and its documentation prevented people from cut and pasting doc strings into Emacs source as help strings, RMS replied that it didn't matter because the FSF owns the copyright to both and so can do that. But that doesn't give forks the same privilege. That's a problem with the old doc license as well, since it wasn't the GPL either. -- Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
