From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus (newsreader) licensing Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 13:22:49 +0100 Message-ID: <86o9o957ja.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87tvy13drg.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510403036 24117 195.159.176.226 (11 Nov 2017 12:23:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 12:23:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 11 13:23:21 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1eDUoh-0005JP-U0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 13:23:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45311 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDUoo-0008Vf-Of for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 07:23:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47266) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDUoP-0008VX-Sh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 07:23:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDUoM-0001LW-Pc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 07:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47970 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDUoM-0001LE-It for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 07:22:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eDUoC-00042p-NZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 13:22:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:WclBgb5uMzYvuiR9IqnTP0tZh8w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114850 Archived-At: 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