Daniel Dehennin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Le 5543 Septembre 1993, Oleksandr Gavenko a envoyé:
>> Michael Olson пишет:
>>> 
>>> Following up, every single manual in Emacs' doc/misc directory is
>>> licensed under GFDL, with no dual-licensing.  It would be possible
>>> to maintain a separately-licensed copy *outside* of the Emacs tree,
>>> but we'd have to be very careful about not propagating changes
>>> verbatim from one copy to the other, and get permission from every
>>> current copyright holder, including myself.
>>> 
>> Also find example dual licencing in Debian Reference Guide.
>>  From Debian Reference Contributor's Guide
>> (debian-reference/manual.sgml):
>
> I have nothing to say as I'm not a contributor of the manual, I think
> GFDL without invariant section is ok, both for Emacs and Debian.

The problem is that Debian disallows front-cover and back-cover text,
and all Emacs manuals have both.

I disallow the relicensing of my changes to the manual on the grounds
that it makes it harder to get the manual into Emacs.

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| http://mwolson.org/  |  Hobbies: Lisp, HCoop          |
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