Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site unipress.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!columbia!topaz!unipress!fhp From: fhp@unipress.uucp (fred pack) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: GNU Emacs and copyright Message-ID: <103@unipress.uucp> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 13:52:01 EDT Article-I.D.: unipress.103 Posted: Wed Jun 26 13:52:01 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 00:45:56 EDT Organization: Insert name of your organization in /usr/lib/news/organization Lines: 18 This is a general announcement to the community from UniPress Software, Inc. UniPress is aware of the "GNU Emacs" program being offered as a public domain work which has been widely transmitted and distributed. We have no objection whatsoever to a public domain program which functionally resembles our Gosling UniPress Emacs program. However, we have examined the GNU Emacs program and have found that it contains certain material which is copyright protected by James Gosling, from his Emacs program. Mr. Gosling has provided the distribution rights to UniPress and to no one else. Years ago, he did supply copies of his program to various institutions, but these copies were covered by a "no further distribution" clause. Accordingly, UniPress wants to inform the community that portions of the GNU Emacs program are most definitely not public domain, and that use and/or distribution of the GNU Emacs program is not necessarily proper.