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Re: Bug#227159: ocaml: license conflict in Emacs Lisp support?



Scripsit bts@alum.mit.edu (Brian T. Sniffen)

> It concerned E-Lisp APIs.  If you call cons or even unwind-protect,
> that's clearly not copyrightable.  But if you call
> gnus-agent-cat-downloadable-faces, that's an internal function
> call

An internal function call is not an API, and it is reasonable to
expect the law (as applied by courts with a clue, assuming that such
courts exist, yada yada) to treat them differently.

> -- anything that was a Method of Operation would be (interactive).

Is cons or unwind-protect (interactive)?

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