From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: "Ayappan P2" <ayappap2@in.ibm.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus (newsreader) licensing
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:38:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvy13drg.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF172057E5.EE3DFD87-ON002581D4.004E298E-652581D4.004F6070@notes.na.collabserv.com> (Ayappan's message of "Fri, 10 Nov 2017 19:57:00 +0530")
"Ayappan P2" <ayappap2@in.ibm.com> writes:
> 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. You can't
"take out copyright" -- it's automatic. And you can't copyright two
words. It might have been possible to patent "master/slave" but if you
were doing so, you wouldn't explain it in a free manual. But in this
case, there is a lot of prior art.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-10 23:38 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2017-11-11 12:22 ` Emanuel Berg
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