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Re: Gnus (newsreader) licensing
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Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Re: Gnus (newsreader) licensing |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 13:22:49 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Phillip Lord wrote:
>> We are porting Emacs to IBM AIX operating
>> system. As of part of getting legal approval
>> for any opensource software, we do code
>> scan. While doing the code scan of Emacs, we
>> encountered the following patent statements
>> regarding slave Gnusae.
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Slave-Gnusae.html
>> Does this mean we should not be using this
>> feature freely ?
>
> It's undoubtedly a joke, as well as being
> legal nonsense.
Gnus is a part of Emacs - perhaps the very best
part - so it is GPLv3 for Gnus as well as for
GNU Emacs.
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