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From: fhp@unipress.uucp (fred pack)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: GNU Emacs and copyright
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Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 13:52:01 EDT
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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.