Re: feedmail.el in the public domain?

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> We've been through this, you should be able to find the relevant
> discussions in the archives.  This file is in public domain and cannot
> be changed to anything else, AFAIR.

I couldn't find the relevant discussions despite three or four Google searches; 
could you briefly elaborate?

If a file is in the public domain then there is no legal obstacle to placing 
whatever copyright license you like on a copy that you redistribute. At least 
that's true in the US, which is the controlling legal authority for FSF 
distribution. If there's some foreign-copyright issue here, we may need to have 
FSF legal counsel look at it, since these things can be tricky.