GPLv3 or later -- Lispref files refers to text in lispref.text

Mats Lidell writes: It's way worse than that. There is no separate named license for our documents. The license *is* the permissions notice, and it is, unfortunately, copyleft. Here's the relevant section: """ Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. ＠ignore Permission is granted to process this file through TeX and print the results, provided the printed document carries copying permission notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph (this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual). ＠end ignore Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Foundation. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that the section entitled ``GNU General Public License'' is included exactly as in the original, and provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that the section entitled ``GNU General Public License'' may be included in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English. """ It's not a problem for distribution. However, there is absolutely no other license that is compatible with this one in either direction, so syncing to other works (GNU, docstrings in XEmacs, etc) can only be done with explicit permission of the author of the content we want to add to our Texinfo manuals. There is no solution, without relicensing. We'll have to get a very good lawyer to do that. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta