"Public domain" is not an existing concept in the framework of Swedish copyright legislation, and since IDA is a Swedish organization operating in Sweden, any statements concerning "public domain" will at best function as a letter of intent, but is unlikely to have any strict legal force beyond that.
/ Leif Stensson, Lysator
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2002-11-11 21:43: Subject: pike.el
An alternative is that IDA releases that particular code into the public domain, and that you get a signed statement to that affect ("copyright disclaimer", in FSF terminology, I think) and send to the FSF. Or perhaps you can arrange something between thse two alternatives with the FSF.
I agree this is annoying. Personally, I'm trying to make up my mind on whether or not I should assign Nettle copyright to the FSF.
/ Niels Möller ()