Re: A possible GFDL compromise

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> writes:

> While the core of Emacs was written by RMS, the vast number of add-ons
> were not.  I doubt that they are _all_ in agreement with the FSF adding
> an invariant section, but they have signed over copyright so have no
> control anyway.

All of the authors of sections of manuals continue to have complete
control over their original contributions.  They can't keep the FSF from
relicensing their contributions, but they can also re-release them under a
different license.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>