Re: A copyright (?) issue with a message helper function

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-01-18, at 23:13, Karl Fogel <address@hidden> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
>>I'm writing myself a function to ask me whether I really want to send
>>a message without an attachment if it contains a string like "I
>>attach".  I'd like to submit it as a patch to Emacs.  However, I used
>>the set of strings described here:
>>http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/How_to_Get_a_Forgotten_Attachment_Reminder_in_Gmail.htm
>>Would it be a copyright problem?
>
> I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but if it were my code I 
> wouldn't worry a bit.  Those phrases do not look copyrightable, and they are 
> used here strictly for utilitarian (not expressive) purposes.  IMHO there 
> shouldn't be any problem.

Thanks!  Since this was the only answer, I guess I'm just getting
paranoid about this whole copyright/IP BS.

> -Karl

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University