Am Do., 20. Aug. 2020 um 16:42 Uhr schrieb John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org>:
> Three, I think: reverse-bitvector->vector/{bool,int} and reverse-vector->bitvector.
s/vector/bytevector/g ???
I am not sure I understand. We already have a bitvector-reverse, as well as procedures to convert to and from lists both forward and reverse. We only need to extend that capability to vectors.
The FSF folks seem to be very strict about these things, so I thought
it might be important.
Institutional persistence, probably, as well as institutional OCD.
BTW, when the time has come. the +75 will surely have become a +175,
just to satisfy the media industry.
The time to do so came in the U.S. on January 1, 2019, and no such revision was introduced. So everything first published in the U.S. before 1925 is in the public domain, after many years of the limit being frozen at 1923. (In particular, the very earliest versions of Mickey Mouse, an incredibly valuable property, are P.D.) Congress can and has, however, restored copyright status to works before, but I know of no efforts in that direction.
(Unpublished works can remain in copyright forever. There exists a letter by Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), written before there was a United States, that will remain in copyright until 2048, as the original Province of Massachusetts Bay perpetual copyright on unpublished works was eventually transferred to a historical society, which published it in 1958 -- on microfilm only.)