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Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 7 Nov 2008 00:11:09 +0100 |
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06 2008, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
>> wrote:
>>>>> As we don't have copyright assignments for the content on EmacsWiki,
>>>>> we cannot do this. [...]
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure that is important since if something on EmacsWiki is to
>>>> be included in Emacs it needs to be rewritten to fit into Emacs
>>>> manual.
>>>
>>> AFAIK, that doesn't matter.
>>
>> What do you mean?
>
> In general[1], in order to include non-trivial content[2] in Emacs,
> the author has to assign the copyright to the FSF. If we don't have
> an assignment, we cannot include it.
>
> I don't know what kind of rewriting your thinking about. If it's only
> adding texinfo markup and minor changes, then I think we still need an
> assignment from the original author.[3]
Thanks, I see.
My idea was to let someone who have signed FSF papers for contributing
to Emacs do the rewriting. I meant a complete rewrite using the ideas
from the EmacsWiki pages, but not directly the content itself.
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, Alex, 2008/11/04
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/11/04
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, Reiner Steib, 2008/11/06
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, Lennart Borgman, 2008/11/06
- Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs (was: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness), Reiner Steib, 2008/11/06
- Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs (was: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness), Lennart Borgman, 2008/11/06
- Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs, Reiner Steib, 2008/11/06
- Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs,
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- Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs, Rupert Swarbrick, 2008/11/08
- Re: Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/11/07
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, tyler, 2008/11/06
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, Paul R, 2008/11/07
- Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, tyler, 2008/11/07
Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/11/06
Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/11/07