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

[Phil Sung]

On 3/25/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> It's a very simple license, compared to the GPL, but it is not a
> "template license".  It is only usable with the old GNU Emacs manual
> and derivatives (such as the XEmacs manual), and refers by name to
> content that is not present in your tutorial.  This is messy, and
> it's not clear to me what it might imply legally.
>
> I suggest two options for your consideration:
>
> 1.  Grant us a single very permissive license, such as the "new BSD"
> or MIT/X license.  These can be "promoted" to any of the licenses we
> use.

Ok, so I've made the work available under the GPL and the MIT/X11
license. Is that sufficient?

I've added some HTML versions of the guides (with more prose) and
updated the web page to reflect the licensing:
<http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/emacs/>

Cheers,
Phil