Re: Documentation licenses

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Mon, May 17 2004, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
>
>> Maybe we can't do this for pgg.texi, sasl.texi and possibly other
>> manuals distributed with Gnus.
>
> And the copyright is assigned to the FSF, so perhaps the easiest
> thing to do would be for me to ask Richard if it'd be OK to
> dual-licence the manuals? 

Hm, the Emacs manual is also licensed under GFDL:

,----[ man/emacs.texi ]
| @quotation
| Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
| under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
| any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the
| Invariant Sections being ``The GNU Manifesto'', ``Distribution'' and
| ``GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE'', with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU
| Manual,'' and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below.  A copy of the
| license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
| License.''
| [...]
`----

So it would probably make more sense if the debian-legal people find
some agreement with the Emacs maintainers.  (Will Debian also remove
GNU Emacs or move if to "non-free" otherwise?)

Bye, Reiner.
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