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From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>,
	monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question: using public domain code?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:58:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB4977B63849C966AC55A0FECB96D69@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1mOXKu-0003OM-3T@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:36:20 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > In such case (code says PD but actually CC0 like), does it
>   > prevent usage in GNU project without copyright papers?
>
> It depends on the details of the situation.  I can't give you a
> general answer, but if you bring up a _specific real case_ we can look
> for a solution.

I'll make some noise if/when I have something.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-10 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-07  1:41 Question: using public domain code? Qiantan Hong
2021-09-07  5:25 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07  5:30   ` Qiantan Hong
2021-09-07  6:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 12:32     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-07 13:03       ` Qiantan Hong
2021-09-10  3:36         ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-10 10:58           ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2021-09-07 13:28       ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07 13:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 14:50           ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07 15:23             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 16:38               ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-09  3:07         ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-08  3:29       ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-07  6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii

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