From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feedmail.el in the public domain?
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:53:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1g22OF-0004hi-FN@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4leo2me1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:12:02 -0400)
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> No, IIUC it just means that their header notices shouldn't say public
> domain because, while the original version may have been PD, the current
> version is inevitably covered by the copyright of the FSF because of all
> the changes we've accumulated on them since they were incorporated
> into Emacs.
That is true IF we have made substantial changes.
But if we have not made much change, then the file is still in
the public domain. We should check the facts, not just presume.
> And for that same reason, we need to distribute them under a license we
> find acceptable: it could be CC0 (to try and mimick PD as much as
> possible), or GPLv3+ (like all our other files).
Unless the GNU Project has some special reason to avoid using
copyleft, we should release such files under GPLv3+. See
https://gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-17 22:53 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 [this message]
2018-09-18 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-18 3:12 ` Glenn Morris
2018-09-17 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
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