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

[Jason Spiro]

Hi Phil,

2007/3/10, Phil Sung <psung at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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).
>
> Sorry! I realize this is suboptimal for XEmacs. But let me know if
> there is anything I can do to help out.

Maybe they would be willing to dual-license it under the GPL?  To try
to persuade them, you could tell them:

* It would be a nice courtesy to you, since you're the original author.
* The GPL is a copyleft license, so the tutorial would remain Free.
* The tutorial could be made more useful to more people because the
XEmacs folks would be able to integrate the tutorial more closely with
the XEmacs GUI.

Cheers,
Jason

P.S. Don't feel bad about doing the copyright assignment.  IMO it's
much better to write the tutorial and get it released GFDL'ed, as you
did, than not to provide any tutorial at all. :-) And anyway, it was
my mistake, not yours, to not contact the xemacs people sooner.

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