Re: A possible GFDL compromise

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org>]

Brian T. Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>:

> But the FSF is exploiting its monopoly position with regard to Emacs
> to do things which it does not permit further distributors to do.  The
> Emacs manual claims to be part of Emacs, but only the FSF, as the
> copyright holder of both works, can distribute a combined work of
> Emacs and the Emacs Manual.  I cannot distribute a package consisting
> of Emacs and Brian's GFDL'd Emacs Manual, because the GPL does not
> permit me to link my GFDL'd text&code with Emacs.

Don't worry. This will be "solved" in GPLv3 ...