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From: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Kelly Dean <kelly <at> prtime.org>, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, assign <at> gnu.org, 19479 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19479: Copyright issue
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:29:19 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>> 1. My code is PD. (In case the FSF disputes this fact, I'm attaching
>>    a signed document to establish it.)
>
> It can't be PD.  You're simply confused about it.  It will only be PD
> 75 years after your death (or something like that).

If I remember correctly, if he is living in the U.S.A. and registers a
specific work with the U.S. copyright office as being released by him
into the public domain, then the work will indeed be in the public
domain within the U.S.A.  We need to bother with more than the U.S.A.,
however, and one can only register specific works which means it is not
possible to register them before they are even created.

-- 
David Kastrup

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