Re: Rewriting GFDL docs - where to start from?
* John Hasler:
>> What is this license? Where can it be found? Is it also problematic with
>> respect to GPL-compatibility?
>
> On my Woody system I have an Emacs manual that contains this:
>
> This is the thirteenth edition of the `GNU Emacs Manual', updated for
> Emacs version 20.7.
> ...
> ...
> Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
> manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that the
> sections entitled "The GNU Manifesto", "Distribution" and "GNU General
> Public License" are 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.
Even the Emacs 18 manual contained a similar permission notice
(i.e. WITH invariant sections).
I'm not sure what the copyright status of the XEmacs manual is,
though.
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