From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: feedmail.el in the public domain? Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 21:36:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83h8isj59j.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536950068 9376 195.159.176.226 (14 Sep 2018 18:34:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:34:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 20:34:24 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 1g0svA-0002Jy-CH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:34:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52914 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0sxG-0005TT-P0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:36:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37748) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0sx0-0005SO-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0sx0-0001vC-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52020) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0swz-0001v8-TB; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:36:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1357 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g0swz-0008R2-Fi; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:36:17 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:44:01 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:229792 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:44:01 -0400 > > I see that feedmail.el's header says: > > ;; This file is in the public domain. > > and doesn't contain that usual GPLv3+ blurb (and link to the FSF). > > While the file may have been in the public domain when we got it, lots > of people have worked on it since according to the `git log`, so I think > this should be changed. > Any objection? We've been through this, you should be able to find the relevant discussions in the archives. This file is in public domain and cannot be changed to anything else, AFAIR.