Re: feedmail.el in the public domain?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:13:50 -0700
> 
> 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?

Sorry, no.

> 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.

Maybe so (IANAL), but why would we want or need to waste our energy on
this?  This file has been in Emacs since about forever, and it never
bothered us that it was in PD.  Why now?