Releasing the Emacs guided tour into the public domain; also, video

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Sung" <psung at mit.edu> writes:

> On 3/7/07, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> See http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cc241693f0702201736r24a961b5k1260bbe89735dc32%40mail.gmail.com%3e
>> for my conversation with Stephen about it.  (I think it's the first 4
>> messages in thread.)  I personally think it'd be less confusing for
>> people, and more adaptable, if you just released it into the public
>> domain. :-)
>
> Hi Jason (and XEmacs),
>
> Alas, I recently (about a week ago) assigned my copyright for the
> slides to the FSF for contribution to GNU Emacs. I am not sure whether
> they could be persuaded to release this work into the public domain (I
> assume that it is their decision to make now).

If you have done a standard copyright assignment procedure to the FSF,
you will have received a grant backward to use or license the work
under arbitrary conditions.  I am not a lawyer (ask the copyright
clerk of the FSF for that), but you should be able to write something
like

Copyright (c) 2007 Free Software Foundation
Licensed by Phil Sung with authorization to the XEmacs development
team under the following terms:

Please check this with the copyright clerk (and of course, your part
of the assignment contract), but that should not really be a problem
if you got a standard contract.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum