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In-Reply-To: <199507290235.AA25489@halcyon.com> from "Vince Skahan" at Jul 28, 95 07:35:50 pm
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> A verbatim copy may be reproduced or distributed in any medium physical or
> electronic without permission of the author.  Translations are similarly
> permitted without express permission if it includes a notice on who translated
> it.

Vince, it is the 'verbatim copy' section that is what the discussion has been
about. It prevents modification.

I haven't yet found a copy of the Emacs documentation license to which Richard
refers, a job for this afternoon.

I guess the question is what does a suitably free copyright look like?

Terry


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