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

[Karl Fogel]

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.

-Karl