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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Permission
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 02:44:30 EDT
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In article <732@masscomp.UUCP> z@masscomp.UUCP (Steve Zimmerman) writes:
>  Here's the relevant part of his message:
>
>	I actually did talk to our lawyer in charge of licensing and
>	associated software stuff about GNU, described the situation and
>	asked him what his opinion was. That was that we probably didn't
>	want to touch it with a 10 foot pole. Unless RMS can come up
>	with something that is legally binding (and electronic mail,
>	which is easily forgeable, doesn't count)

I got Gosling's permission to use his emacs but it was in the form
of electronic mail. I suspect many users are in the same situation.
I hope this doesn't mean I could get in trouble for using it on my
site because I don't have something legally binding.
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