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Re: On the PublicDomain-ness of Gosling Emacs [message #279668] Mon, 30 December 1985 03:30
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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.)
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