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> From: "Neville D. Newman"
> James Gosling's Emacs done at CMU...This is a horse of an entirely
> different flavor, and according to Gosling himself no part of it is really
> in the public domain. That is to say that while he did give away and support
> early versions, he did not authorize random redistribution.
This is not *quite* true. During the Salt Lake City Usenix I approached
James about putting the regular expression code from his Emacs into the
public domain. (We wanted to use it in the uucp mail routing software.)
He wrote out a little statement that we could have the code and redistribute it
to anybody, and signed it. Quote:
"The Usenix/UUCP project has my permission to use the regular
expression pattern matcher from EMACS. James Gosling, 6/14/84"
So the regular expression code from Gosling Emacs is in the public domain,
but the rest of it is not. (I checked this today with James and he agrees.)