Re: Followup: Re: Releasing the Emacs guided tour into the public domain; also, video

Jason Spiro writes: Well, that's the whole idea, isn't it? For the edits as such, no, and no. However, without copyright assignment changes will not be distributed with (GNU) Emacs for the foreseeable future. XEmacs is not so fastidious. That's up to Wikipedia and the authors of the modifications. I think it's preferable for Phil to maintain a canonical version under "all of the above", but that's up to him; the legal niggles can get annoying. Also, trashing other people's edits simply because they're not as generous in licensing as you are may be against Wikimedia policy, and certainly is somewhat paradoxical. The legal niggles necessarily matter to XEmacs, because of the complex copyright situation we find ourselves in. Whether they matter to Phil depends on how he feels about the possibility that some of his downstream (like XEmacs and GNU Emacs) may not be able or willing to incorporate such edits, or (in the case of users who choose the MIT license) he himself may not be able to use edits in future versions if they redistribute in "closed" form. Personally, I think he should go ahead and publish. The main body remains under the licenses he chose. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta