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From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: What license to use for Emacs libraries?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:12:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fv3ffjuw.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737zgkvnq.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (Robert Thorpe's message of "Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:46:01 +0100")

Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:

> phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes:
>> In the UK, I believe that the term "public domain" has much meaning wrt
>> copyright as "fair use" or indeed the term "Jeremy Clarkson": i.e. none
>> at all.
>
> I didn't know that.  What's the problem specifically?

Public domain I am not sure. The term is in wide use (see for example
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/copyright-and-the-value-of-the-public-domain).
Interestingly, though, it applies to neither The King James Bible nor
Peter Pan. How wierd is that.

"Fair use" has an equivalent ("fair dealing"). Similar to US fair use
but not the same.

Phil



  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-19 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-18 21:06 What license to use for Emacs libraries? Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-18 21:48 ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-18 22:01   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-18 22:15     ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-18 23:46       ` Robert Thorpe
2015-08-19 14:12         ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2015-08-20  7:05         ` Steinar Bang
2015-08-18 23:16   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-19 14:36     ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-19 21:46       ` Robert Thorpe
2015-08-20  4:44         ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-19 16:00     ` Phillip Lord
2015-08-18 21:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-18 23:21   ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]   ` <mailman.8593.1439940074.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-19  1:11     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-19 16:02       ` Phillip Lord

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