Re: RFH: Non-free files in Emacs

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> writes:

> Just to confirm the parameters of this review, are you assuming that any
> file not explicitly licensed falls under the GPL of Emacs?  Or should we
> flag files which have no explicit license?  Quite a number of the files
> in etc/ have no explicit license.

This is a very good question, I asked myself already.  I tend to think
that when no licensing information is given, the COPYING applies.
But since I'm not a licensing specialist, I'd like a confirmation.

> Also, etc/MOTIVATION contains:
>> [reprinted with permission of the author
>>  from the Monday 19 January 1987 Boston Globe]
> with no license notice given, and authorization to reprint does not
> necessarily include authorization to modify.

I would not be surpised this one really lacks a proper license.

Thanks.

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Jérôme Marant