From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question: using public domain code? Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:29:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <428F91B1-2DB3-4F22-A618-109351C9EAFB@mit.edu> <2F6E1658-6855-468C-84BA-91BFAACFB699@mit.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10687"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: qhong@mit.edu, arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 08 05:34:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoLj-0002ab-Ry for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 05:34:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50078 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoLi-0007Ml-C4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:34:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54286) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoHY-0008G8-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:29:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49016) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoHY-0007X5-0a; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:29:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNoHX-0003Wa-2z; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 23:29:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 07 Sep 2021 08:32:11 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274308 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > a misunderstanding on the part of the authors thinking they can opt to > put the file in the public domain, which is not the case. In the US, they can do that. Instead of disputing the issue here in a general way that won't be right, the right thing is to consult assign@gnu.org about the specific case and tell them the facts. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)