From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feedmail.el in the public domain?
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 23:00:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7ejk4yus.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1g1jEQ-0002Zm-Gt@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 16 Sep 2018 22:25:46 -0400")
> There is no problem with having that public domain file in Emacs.
Of course, there isn't. The question was different:
1- Take a file from public domain.
2- Make many small changes to it over the course of several years (all
after the Berne convention).
3- Assume the sum of those changes is significantly higher than the
"20-lines triviality threshold".
4- Is the result still public domain?
If so, great.
[ and I hope I'll remember this interesting tidbit of copyright law. ]
If not, then the notice on this file (and others like it) is incorrect
[ This case better matches my mental model of how copyright law works. ]
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-17 3:00 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 [this message]
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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