From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
Cc: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>,
Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Question: using public domain code?
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 08:32:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtuiw36xw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2F6E1658-6855-468C-84BA-91BFAACFB699@mit.edu> (Qiantan Hong's message of "Tue, 7 Sep 2021 05:30:41 +0000")
> But I’m unsure about public domain...
In theory, public domain can be used, and I think we wpouldn't require
copyright papers to use it in Emacs.
*BUT* in practice, there is pretty much no ELisp code in the public
domain. If the file says that it's in the public domain, it's usually
a misunderstanding on the part of the authors thinking they can opt to
put the file in the public domain, which is not the case.
You can assume they meant to use something like the CC0 license, instead.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-07 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-07 1:41 Question: using public domain code? Qiantan Hong
2021-09-07 5:25 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07 5:30 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-09-07 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 12:32 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-09-07 13:03 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-09-10 3:36 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-10 10:58 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07 13:28 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 14:50 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 16:38 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-09 3:07 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-08 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-07 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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