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> From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 10:02:26 +1000
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> My idea is that the list does stay private. You cannot see/retrieve the list. All you can do is submit an email
> address and it will come back with either yes or no (ture/false etc).. You wold need to know the email
> address before you can check copyright status.

Richard is working with the FSF stuff on this, but AFAIU the response
cannot be a binary YES/NO result, it must be able to return a 3rd
value, meaning "human investigation is required".  I don't know if you
ever saw the copyright list, but some entries there are not very
trivial for a program to process, since they include various
conditions that are written in free-text format which would not be
simple for a program to parse and apply.