From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: feedmail.el in the public domain? Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:59:38 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <83h8isj59j.fsf@gnu.org> <83worlgwmw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1537128078 24083 195.159.176.226 (16 Sep 2018 20:01:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 20:01:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 16 22:01:14 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g1dEH-0006Bl-6s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 22:01:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60111 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1dGN-0005BC-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 16:03:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58911) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1dFg-00056X-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 16:02:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1dCq-0000BE-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:59:45 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:47830) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1dCn-000063-11; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:59:41 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66FF71614C4; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id LR6VhJgYIpcr; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB12A161511; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:59:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id w-K7O-AkUtC5; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 83CC81614C4; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:59:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83worlgwmw.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229864 Archived-At: 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.