From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus (newsreader) licensing
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 13:22:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86o9o957ja.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tvy13drg.fsf@russet.org.uk
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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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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
2017-11-11 12:22 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
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