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From: Ben Finney <ben+emacs@benfinney.id.au>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GFDL
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 13:35:59 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7w61y68lb4.fsf@benfinney.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87a9nofpvu.fsf@bzg.ath.cx

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
> writes:
>
> > FMI, why is GNU GPL not applicable to the manual?
>
> Because the manual is part of GNU Emacs, which is part of the GNU
> project, and every project in the GNU project is required to publish
> manuals in GNU FDL only. Dual licensing is not an option here.

Wow, I didn't realise the FSF policy was *that* restrictive.

Publishing the manual under both FDL and GPL should satisfy the FSF's
legitimate requirements for their work, so I don't know how they justify
refusing a manual that happens to also be published under some non-FDL
license.

Do you have a reference from some FSF official for that restriction?

> There are many discussions about this... a can of (dead) worms.

Agreed, thank you.

-- 
 \                “Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an |
  `\                      affirmation, but as a question.” —Niels Bohr |
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Ben Finney

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-26  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-09 14:30 GFDL Carsten Dominik
2013-03-09 15:02 ` GFDL Achim Gratz
2013-03-09 15:11   ` GFDL Carsten Dominik
2013-03-09 15:25     ` GFDL Achim Gratz
2013-03-09 16:13       ` GFDL Carsten Dominik
2013-03-10 10:07         ` GFDL Bastien
2013-03-10 12:31           ` GFDL Achim Gratz
2013-03-10 14:06             ` GFDL Bastien
2013-03-10  0:43     ` GFDL Alan L Tyree
2013-03-19  6:44       ` GFDL Carsten Dominik
2013-03-19 15:42         ` GFDL Bastien
2013-03-19 19:06         ` GFDL Marcin Borkowski
2013-03-19 21:35           ` GFDL Bastien
2013-03-20  2:56             ` GFDL Marcin Borkowski
2013-03-20  6:01               ` GFDL Marcin Borkowski
2013-03-20 14:00                 ` GFDL Bastien
2013-03-20 15:25                   ` GFDL Marcin Borkowski
2013-03-20 19:55                     ` GFDL Marcin Borkowski
2013-04-06  1:05                       ` GFDL Bastien
2013-05-21  1:02         ` GFDL Ben Finney
2013-05-21 10:27           ` GFDL Bastien
2013-05-21 12:56             ` GFDL Sebastien Vauban
2013-05-21 13:01               ` GFDL Bastien
2013-05-26  3:35                 ` Ben Finney [this message]
2013-05-27  7:12                   ` GFDL Bastien
2013-06-04  9:35                     ` GFDL Ben Finney
2013-05-21 13:34               ` GFDL François Pinard
2013-05-21 14:18                 ` GFDL Carsten Dominik
2013-05-21 15:03                   ` GFDL François Pinard
2013-05-22  4:43                     ` GFDL Carsten Dominik
2013-05-21 16:12               ` [OT] Contributors to org.texi (was: GFDL) Memnon Anon

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