bug#38002: Please remove this joke

[nipponpost]

And I am going to find out who added that joke, if at all I possibly 
can, and inform him about copyright reversion under section 203 of the 
Copyright Act.

www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html#203

And No: these contributions are not works for hire.
(Note regarding 35 years: I assume his code was as ancient as his joke.)

On 2019-11-01 16:21, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > There is nothing wrong with jokes in general, and no valid reason in
> > general to delete jokes in the Emacs distribution.  If you think there
> > is something bad about a particular joke, please suggest deleting that
> > specific joke and give the specific reason.
>
> I've applied the patch (removing the boring joke), and I agree with you
> that there's nothing wrong with jokes in general.