Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual
"Ben Wing" <ben(a)666.com> writes:
> Which is the FSF's choice. The difference is that XEmacs has
> decided not to bother about assignments and stuff, and due to
> that decision they don't have such a general cooperation to
> offer in a manner useful for Emacs. In contrast, the FSF
> still has the choice to licence the Emacs manual under
> different free licences because they bothered about the
> assignment, and they bother about licences.
You seem to think that it is the duty of XEmacs to do whatever is
necessary to assure that GNU Emacs can use its code, even to the
extent of hindering the development of XEmacs itself.
You seem to think that it is the duty of Emacs to do whatever is
necessary to assure that XEmacs can use its manuals under XEmacs' own
conditions, even to the extent of reverting the licence choices of
Emacs itself.
Neither is the other's duty.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum