From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A copyright (?) issue with a message helper function
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:13:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87powyedtn.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vb6q7dn1.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Mon, 18 Jan 2016 22:59:14 +0100")
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>I'm writing myself a function to ask me whether I really want to send
>a message without an attachment if it contains a string like "I
>attach". I'd like to submit it as a patch to Emacs. However, I used
>the set of strings described here:
>http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/How_to_Get_a_Forgotten_Attachment_Reminder_in_Gmail.htm
>Would it be a copyright problem?
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but if it were my code I wouldn't worry a bit. Those phrases do not look copyrightable, and they are used here strictly for utilitarian (not expressive) purposes. IMHO there shouldn't be any problem.
-Karl
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2016-01-18 21:59 A copyright (?) issue with a message helper function Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-18 22:13 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2016-01-20 22:09 ` Marcin Borkowski
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