From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feedmail.el in the public domain?
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:59:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4451040-8414-f070-02b0-df33036bed1b@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83worlgwmw.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> why would we want or need to waste our energy on
> this? This file has been in Emacs since about forever, and it never
> bothered us that it was in PD. Why now?
Because it's come to our attention now, it's an easy fix, and getting licenses
right is an important part of the GNU project's work.
>> If a file is in the public domain then there is no legal obstacle to placing
>> whatever copyright license you like on a copy that you redistribute....
>
> Maybe so (IANAL)
I'm not a lawyer either, but this is a well-understood part of copyright law
there's no real controversy about it. We've used public-domain code in the GNU
project before, with no problems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-16 19:59 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 [this message]
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
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