From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:29:04 +0900 Message-ID: <87wqt9eq67.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87ober717z.fsf@gmail.com> <87mwu9iwcp.fsf@gmail.com> <87mwu9fiu0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d2v4f5bb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87a9q7eynu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ip4ug5m0.fsf@riseup.net> <874ngefej8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87y5dqdl9g.fsf@riseup.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363289371 301 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2013 19:29:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:29:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: wgreenhouse@riseup.net (W. Greenhouse) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 14 20:29:56 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UGDqZ-00018s-Bw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:29:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39204 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGDqC-0000IU-MH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50716) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGDq8-0000HC-Qj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:29:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGDq0-00049t-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:40707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGDq0-00048p-AX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:29:16 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A566970900; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:29:04 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4DD991A3D97; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:29:04 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87y5dqdl9g.fsf@riseup.net> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157870 Archived-At: W. Greenhouse writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > > W. Greenhouse writes: > > > > > Your 10 line program likely does not pass the de minimis threshold to be > > > copyrightable in the first place, > > > > I think you'll find there is no such de minimis in copyright law. Eg, > > surely individual haiku are copyrightable. > > There is de minimis originality and creativity, OK, let's stop here. This no longer has much bearing on what code is part of Emacs, and Richard says he'll study some questions, which is what I asked. I'm going to respond to Mr. (?) Greenhouse offline, and will be happy to send a digest (after receiving permission if there's a response) on request. Steve