GNU bug report logs - #19479
Package manager vulnerable

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kelly Dean <kelly <at> prtime.org>

Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 12:40:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security

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From: Kelly Dean <kelly <at> prtime.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>
Cc: assign <at> gnu.org, 19479 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19479: Copyright issue
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 21:00:23 +0000
David Kastrup wrote:
> We need to bother with more than the U.S.A.,
> however

Does this mean that all PD code, including feedmail.el, needs to be deleted from Emacs? The authors of that code don't satisfy the not-USA countries' supposed requirements of having been dead for 75 years or so.

> one can only register specific works which means it is not
> possible to register them before they are even created.

Ouch. Unfortunately, I've been busy and have had no time for proper preparation, so I'll parry your blow next week. ;-)

Anyway, my patch that Glenn objected to was created in the past, not the future, so at least that one is ok.




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