* Gnus (newsreader) licensing
@ 2017-11-10 14:27 Ayappan P2
2017-11-10 19:35 ` Ludwig, Mark
2017-11-10 23:38 ` Phillip Lord
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From: Ayappan P2 @ 2017-11-10 14:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi ,
We are porting Emacs to IBM AIX operating system. As of part of getting
legal approval for any opensource software, we do code scan.
While doing the code scan of Emacs, we encountered the following patent
statements regarding slave Gnusae.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Slave-Gnusae.html
Does this mean we should not be using this feature freely ?
Thanks
Ayappan P
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* RE: Gnus (newsreader) licensing
2017-11-10 14:27 Gnus (newsreader) licensing Ayappan P2
@ 2017-11-10 19:35 ` Ludwig, Mark
2017-11-10 19:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-10 23:38 ` Phillip Lord
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ludwig, Mark @ 2017-11-10 19:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ayappan P2, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: Ayappan P2, Friday, November 10, 2017 8:27 AM
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Gnus (newsreader) licensing
>
>
> Hi ,
>
> We are porting Emacs to IBM AIX operating system. As of part of getting
> legal approval for any opensource software, we do code scan.
>
> While doing the code scan of Emacs, we encountered the following patent
> statements regarding slave Gnusae.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Slave-
> Gnusae.html
>
> Does this mean we should not be using this feature freely ?
It looks like a joke, to me, but you should probably ask your lawyers.
>
> Thanks
> Ayappan P
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* Re: Gnus (newsreader) licensing
2017-11-10 19:35 ` Ludwig, Mark
@ 2017-11-10 19:58 ` Emanuel Berg
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From: Emanuel Berg @ 2017-11-10 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Ludwig, Mark wrote:
> It looks like a joke, to me, but you should
> probably ask your lawyers.
100% joke. But it was never any fun
until today.
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
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* Re: Gnus (newsreader) licensing
2017-11-10 14:27 Gnus (newsreader) licensing Ayappan P2
2017-11-10 19:35 ` Ludwig, Mark
@ 2017-11-10 23:38 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-11 12:22 ` Emanuel Berg
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From: Phillip Lord @ 2017-11-10 23:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ayappan P2; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
"Ayappan P2" <ayappap2@in.ibm.com> writes:
> We are porting Emacs to IBM AIX operating system. As of part of getting
> legal approval for any opensource software, we do code scan.
>
> While doing the code scan of Emacs, we encountered the following patent
> statements regarding slave Gnusae.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Slave-Gnusae.html
>
> Does this mean we should not be using this feature freely ?
It's undoubtedly a joke, as well as being legal nonsense. You can't
"take out copyright" -- it's automatic. And you can't copyright two
words. It might have been possible to patent "master/slave" but if you
were doing so, you wouldn't explain it in a free manual. But in this
case, there is a lot of prior art.
Phil
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* Re: Gnus (newsreader) licensing
2017-11-10 23:38 ` Phillip Lord
@ 2017-11-11 12:22 ` Emanuel Berg
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From: Emanuel Berg @ 2017-11-11 12:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Phillip Lord wrote:
>> We are porting Emacs to IBM AIX operating
>> system. As of part of getting legal approval
>> for any opensource software, we do code
>> scan. While doing the code scan of Emacs, we
>> encountered the following patent statements
>> regarding slave Gnusae.
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Slave-Gnusae.html
>> Does this mean we should not be using this
>> feature freely ?
>
> It's undoubtedly a joke, as well as being
> legal nonsense.
Gnus is a part of Emacs - perhaps the very best
part - so it is GPLv3 for Gnus as well as for
GNU Emacs.
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
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