Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Re: Commercial vs. Public Domain Message-ID: <1633@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 13:32:58 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1633 Posted: Fri Jul 12 13:32:58 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 15:28:35 EDT References: <969@sdcsvax.UUCP> Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 18 > The July 1985 Digital Review (an advertising throwaway mag aimed at the > DEC-compatible market) contains an article about Emacs, "Have it Your Way" > by Jane Penner Silks (p.93). Given the recent raging controversy of > distribution rights, nonetheless I think it goes a bit far: > . . . > Today, although it HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE PUBLIC > DOMAIN, [emphasis mine], EMACS is as powerful and > customizable as ever. Evidently Jane Penner Silks needs to read up on US copyright law; once something is in the public domain it is owned by the public (by definition, in fact), so it cannot be removed from the public domain except, perhaps, by a special act of Congress. -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary