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: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 20:49:59 +0300 Message-ID: <83worlgwmw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83h8isj59j.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1537120089 2731 195.159.176.226 (16 Sep 2018 17:48:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 17:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 16 19:48:05 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 1g1b9R-0000bA-DT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 19:48:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59793 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1bBX-0002Us-Uw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1bBR-0002SS-WD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1bBN-0007p7-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:50:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60558) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1bBN-0007ow-Qw; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2647 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g1bBN-0008QN-Cc; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:50:05 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:13:50 -0700) 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:229855 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:13:50 -0700 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > 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. > > I couldn't find the relevant discussions despite three or four Google searches; > could you briefly elaborate? Sorry, no. > If a file is in the public domain then there is no legal obstacle to placing > whatever copyright license you like on a copy that you redistribute. At least > that's true in the US, which is the controlling legal authority for FSF > distribution. If there's some foreign-copyright issue here, we may need to have > FSF legal counsel look at it, since these things can be tricky. Maybe so (IANAL), but why would we want or need to waste our energy on this? This file has been in Emacs since about forever, and it never bothered us that it was in PD. Why now?