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: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:36:20 -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="26105"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Qiantan Hong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 05:36:59 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 1mOXLX-0006Yq-1P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2021 05:36:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45240 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOXLU-0006UG-VX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOXKw-0005oF-M0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57222) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOXKu-000504-Bl; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOXKu-0003OM-3T; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:36:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Qiantan Hong on Tue, 7 Sep 2021 13:03:08 +0000) 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:274488 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. ]]] > 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. -- 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)