[slime-devel] nregex in public domain

[Luke Gorrie]

Hi,

I'm not sure if my mail about this will reach the list so I post it
here via Gmane. I will confirm this with the other listed author,
Chris Double.

From: Luke Gorrie <lgorrie at common-lisp.net>
Subject: Re: nregex
To: "Lawrence E. Freil" <lef at freil.com>
Cc: slime-devel at common-lisp.net
Date: 31 Aug 2005 13:59:29 +0200

Hi Lawrence!

Thanks for your help! I think that Debian require an explicit
into-public-domain'ing rather than absense of copyright statement but
I interpret your mail as such an into'ing :-). Of course we'll keep
the proper attribution in the code.

I Cc: this good news to the slime-devel mailing list where our legal
department can see it :-)

"Lawrence E. Freil" <lef at freil.com> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> As it turns out you have the correct person.  I'm just glanced back at
> my origonal postings and I apparently didn't include any copyright statement
> so as you have it, it is already public domain!  :-)  All I ask (and it
> is only a request) that you keep my name in the source, however my current
> email address would now be lef at freil.com instead of lef at nscf.org.
> I also have some modifications by Thomas A Russ (tar at isi.edu) which I can
> send along if you are interested.  He has added some case insensitive
> selections and corrected a problem or two.
> 
> > Hi there!
> > 
> > Are you the same Lawrence E. Freil who wrote nregex.lisp in the
> > distant past? If so would you consider dedicating it to the public
> > domain or some Debian-approved license so that our program (an Emacs
> > mode called SLIME, http://www.common-lisp.net/project/slime/) which
> > bundles nregex.lisp can comply with Debian's requirements?
> > 
> > I know that licensing is very boring but it would be much appreciated!
> > 
> > Apologies if you are entirely another Lawrence E. Friel :-)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Luke
> 
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