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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
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 13:32:58 1985
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> 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
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