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Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual
From: |
Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:29:43 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> But
>> personally I wish the FSF would amend the GFDL to remove the additional
>> encumbering restrictions, or simply rename it the GNU Documentation
>> License:
>>
>> "The GDL is a not-too-unfree documentation license that reserves
>> certain non-economic rights to authors, while perpetually
>>
>> In our judgment, it is free. If you disagree, you're entitled
>> to your opinion.
>
> If you want to produce a help sheet from the contents of the manual,
> having to include the complete invariant sections might prove
> prohibitive even where the scope and content of additional invariant
> sections has not been chosen explicitly for encumbering further
> distribution by a party in the middle.
I haven't studied the GFDL, but IIUC, the issue raised here with the
GFDL is this:
It is not legal (execpt for the copyright owner) to take sections from
a GFDL'ed text and incorporating that text into a GPL program or other
GPL or GFDL (or similarly) licensed documentation without breaking the
GFDL of the original text.
Compare this to taking a section of one GPL program and including it
in another GPL program -- that's fully legal (IIUC).
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, (continued)
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/12/13
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/12/13
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/12/15
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/12/15
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, David Kastrup, 2004/12/15
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/12/15
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/12/17
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/15
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, David Kastrup, 2004/12/16
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/12/16
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Richard Stallman, 2004/12/16
- RE: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Ben Wing, 2004/12/18
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Miles Bader, 2004/12/18
- RE: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Ben Wing, 2004/12/19
- RE: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Ben Wing, 2004/12/19
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/12/19
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, David Kastrup, 2004/12/19
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Paul Pogonyshev, 2004/12/19
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, David Kastrup, 2004/12/19
- Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual, Paul Pogonyshev, 2004/12/19