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

Phil Sung writes: It would violate their principles to release it into the public domain (and there are various reasons why that is potentially disadvantageous to you as author, anyway, although mostly those apply to programs rather than documentation). However, under the standard license assignment you have the right to "make any use of the assigned work you wish" or something like that. FSF supporters (ie, not the legal staff) typically say that means that the FSF will give a license to anybody you specify under any terms the author specifes (as long as those terms are non-exclusive). There's definitely a possibility. If you ask the copyright clerk of the FSF he/she will be able to tell you whether a license to XEmacs would be granted for redistribution under the GPL and/or the Emacs 19 documentation license. If you would do that, we would appreciate it (the GPL is the more important of those two). In some versions of the assignment, this sublicense is from you, in others, it's from the FSF, so you'd have to ask to find out how to do it anyway. In any case, GFDL-only terms are, as you say, suboptimal, but nevertheless extremely generous. I have no intention of looking this gift horse in the mouth. :-) Thank you very much! Steve _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta