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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feedmail.el in the public domain?
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:52:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1g22Nw-0004cz-5N@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pnxcgqcw.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 17 Sep 2018 17:17:51 +0300)

[[[ 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. ]]]

  > Does this mean we cannot/shouldn't have _any_ PD files in Emacs?

He is talking about what determines _whether_ any given material is in
the public domain or not.

It is ok to have public domain material in Emacs.  It is no problem at all.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)





      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-17 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-14 14:44 feedmail.el in the public domain? Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-15 22:13   ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-16 17:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-16 19:59       ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-17  2:25         ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-17  3:00           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-17  4:12             ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-17 14:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-17 15:12                 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-17 22:53                   ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-18  2:53                     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-18  3:12                       ` Glenn Morris
2018-09-17 22:52                 ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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