Re: Adding a line to the splash screen with the guided tour's URL

[David Kastrup]

"Jason Spiro" <address@hidden> writes:

> 2007/4/17, Phil Sung <address@hidden>:
>> On 4/16/07, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > To use three licenses in parallel is probably not a good idea.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, what exactly is the issue?
>> If it matters at all, the other licenses are GPL and MIT/X11.
>
> And if it matters, here are the license terms Phil states at
> http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/emacs/ for the tri-licensing:
>
> Copyright (c) 2007 Phil Sung or the Free Software Foundation.

Well, that line is incorrect.  He has assigned the copyright.  If he
added parts afterwards that are not assigned, then this should be
Copyright (c) 2007 Free Software Foundation
Copyright (c) 2007 Phil Sung
If he didn't add such parts, he has no copyright.  He can then only
write
"Author: Phil Sung"
or "Written by Phil Sung"
or such.  The copyright then rests with the FSF, which is the whole
point of the procedure.

In any case, "or" is nothing to use in a copyright notice: the user
can't pick by whom the work is copyrighted: that is certainly fixed.

> You may use this Work under the GNU Free Documentation License,
> version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software
> Foundation (at your option); or the GNU General Public License,
> version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software
> Foundation (at your option); or the MIT (X11) License.

This part is correct, though it should probably specify the version of
the MIT license.

-- 
David Kastrup