Re: Rewriting GFDL docs - where to start from?
Quoting Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>:
> * 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.
It is exactly the same.
--
Jérôme Marant
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