From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feedmail.el in the public domain?
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:13:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0afbaff-c5d2-d60c-1e9f-880e71bff8be@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h8isj59j.fsf@gnu.org>
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?
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-15 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-14 14:44 feedmail.el in the public domain? Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-15 22:13 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-09-16 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-16 19:59 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-17 2:25 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-17 3:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-17 4:12 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-17 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-17 15:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-17 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-18 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-18 3:12 ` Glenn Morris
2018-09-17 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
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