Subject: Re: Copyright assignments
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.erc.general
Date: 2005-08-10 23:16:28 GMT (3 years, 16 weeks, 2 days, 13 hours and 53 minutes ago)
Michael Olson <mwolson <at> gnu.org> writes: > I did [thorough] research into the unassigned changes to ERC. The > result is that only 2 contributors (instead of 6) need to assign > changes. One of these has indicated to me via IRC that he is in the > process of getting a disclaimer. The other (Jeremy Maitin-Shepard) > I will contact one more time. I've heard from the copyright clerk that Brian is being sent a disclaimer, and Jeremy sent me a message today indicating that he's going to send in an assignment. It looks like ERC is ready (legally, at least) to be included with Emacs! One of the remaining hurdles to getting ERC into Emacs is the lack of a TexInfo manual. I have one or two immediate concerns with other projects to take care of. But on Monday, I'll try to begin throwing together an initial TexInfo manual from the content on EmacsWiki.org. Since Muse (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MuseMode) can publish Wiki-like files to TexInfo, I'm going to try to do things that way. I'm guessing that anyone who wants to work on the manual will need to sign over documentation changes to the FSF. The manual would probably need to be licensed under the GFDL, though I haven't asked Richard about that particular point yet. I emailed Richard about the legality of doing this a month or two ago. The result follows. I wrote: I'll look into finding out the most significant contributors to this [http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsIRCClient] page. But first: would it be acceptable for me to make a manual that is derived From this page (but with significant grammar corrections, sections added, sections deleted, etc.) given that the license for the page and its sub-pages are as follows? This work is licensed to you under version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Alternatively, you may choose to receive this work under any other license that grants the right to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute the work, as long as that license imposes the restriction that derivative works have to grant the same rights and impose the same restriction. For example, you may choose to receive this work under the GNU Free Documentation License, the CreativeCommons ShareAlike License, the XEmacs manual license, or similar licenses. It seems that I could choose to receive this work under the GNU Free Documentation License, but please let me know whether doing the following: (1) receiving the manual under the GNU FDL, and (2) altering it significantly and signing over the new work myself would be sufficient for a manual to be included with Emacs. Richard wrote: That sounds ok. I'm taking this to mean that we don't have to worry about who contributed the work on EmacsWiki.org, as long as we're making significant improvements in the process. -- Michael Olson -- FSF Associate Member #652 -- http://www.mwolson.org/ Interests: anime, Debian, XHTML, wiki, Emacs Lisp /` |\ | | | IRC: mwolson on freenode.net: #hcoop, #muse, #pulug |_] | \| |_| Jabber: mwolson_at_hcoop.net