Re: Bug#227159: ocaml: license conflict in Emacs Lisp support?
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:21:49PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
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> On Jan 15, 2004, at 08:08, Henning Makholm wrote:
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> >Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>
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> >>If the .el source files use copyrightable material from emacs, be it
> >>copyrightable APIs,
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> >Since when is an API protected by copyright? And where?
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> Finally found it again!
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> http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/cyberlaw/
> PosSoftwareVNewCentury(DBstructures)(NDTex2003).htm
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> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200311/
> msg00033.html
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TINLA, IANAL
How does this relate to (override, narrow, whatever) the
precedent set by Lotus vs. Borland (the famous case about
Quattro Pro reproducing the "Look and Feel" of Lotus-1-2-3,
partially because it was also the Lotus-1-2-3 macro language
API?)
Acknowledgement: Lotus, Lotus-1-2-3 and IBM are believed to be a
trademarks of IBM, Borland is believed to be a trademark of
Borland. Quattro Pro is believed to be a trademark once
belonging to Borland, but now possibly transfered to another
entity.
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