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Re: On the PublicDomain-ness of Gosling Emacs [message #279672] Mon, 30 December 1985 09:54
ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron is currently offline  ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron
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Posted: Mon Dec 30 09:54:50 1985
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 >  	"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.)

Eh, I'd watch the derived statement here.  Gosling may have said that the
RE code is in the public domain, but you can't infer that from the indented
statement.  

BTW, JOVE, I believe, uses pieces of code borrowed from the UNIX editors,
which is why it is not freely distributed but only to UNIX source sites.

-Ron
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